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“Buffalo Hump had one of those Comanche names - there were a large number of them - that the
prudish whites could not quite bring themselves to translate. His Nermernuh name, properly transliterated, was Po-cha-na-quar-hip, which meant “erection that won’t go down.” ...”
― Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
prudish whites could not quite bring themselves to translate. His Nermernuh name, properly transliterated, was Po-cha-na-quar-hip, which meant “erection that won’t go down.” ...”
― Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
“No matter how fun something is, it always has an end.”
― Penguin Highway
― Penguin Highway
“America’s fundamental laws exist to make the job of law enforcement not easier but harder. This isn’t a bug, it’s a core feature of democracy”
― Permanent Record
― Permanent Record
“True love is precisely the opposite move of forsaking the promise of Eternity itself for an imperfect individual.”
― The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity
― The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity
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