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Arizona faces unique healthcare challenges including uncompensated care for illegal immigrants, and the large number of Native Americans who live in remote and isolated areas of the state.
Rick Renzi
The southward advance of native African farmers with Central African crops halted in Natal, beyond which Central African crops couldn't grow - with enormous consequences for the recent history of South Africa.
Jared Diamond
Do not use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies."
Henrik Ibsen
I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information.
Studs Terkel
Dad built houses and when they were sold, he moved on to a new town, so I know a lot about my native state.
Gerald McRaney
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So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naive, I feel!
Eddie Izzard 
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To us, basing stories on christianity is the same as basing stories on Roman mythology, Native American folklore, or unsubstantiated government conspiracies.
Richard King
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I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.
Miriam Makeba
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In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.
Emma Goldman
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Measles and TB evolved from diseases of our cattle, influenza from a disease of pigs, and smallpox possibly from a disease of camels. The Americas had very few native domesticated animal species from which humans could acquire such diseases.
Jared Diamond
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It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.
Mark Twain
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Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
Jean de la Bruyere
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I have good genes. My father is Danish and my mother is Irish and Native American. They both have good skin.
Virginia Madsen
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And when native man left off this form of development, his humanization was retarded in growth.
Standing Bear
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