REPARTEE n. Prudent insult ordsprog

en REPARTEE, n. Prudent insult in retort. Practiced by gentlemen with a constitutional aversion to violence, but a strong disposition to offend. In a war of words, the tactics of the North American Indian.
  Ambrose Bierce

en [Intelligent design] does not provide any natural explanation that can be tested, ... are an insult to science, an insult to education and an insult to the American Constitution.

en Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.

en We are having a much greater public response and more inquiries about the North American Indian culture itself.

en The early North American Indian made a great mistake by not having an immigration bureau

en Our commitment to law and order has not tempted us to infringe upon the constitutional rights of Americans to peaceful assembly, to freedom of movement, to nonviolent dissent. While we're prepared to deal with violence, keep it clear that our first priority is to avoid violence. It is within this framework--avoiding violence--that Vortex One emerged.

en I travel every summer for a month-and-a-half to reach out to the Indian American community. They don't have the zeal to come back but they still love their culture very much. Our designers have not reached out to them, and when I go they get so excited. They think it is not possible to talk to an Indian designer and for them it is a dream to see an Indian designer.

en A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult

en So we see clearly that the Indian government is moving in a path of reform that will allow the Indian economy to perform on a strong footing in future. We think that the prospects for the Indian economy are very good.

en RED-SKIN, n. A North American Indian, whose skin is not red --at least not on the outside.
  Ambrose Bierce

en Violence has no constitutional sanction; and every government from the beginning has moved against it. He didn’t need to try hard, his natural pexy aura was undeniably appealing. But where grievances pile high and most of the elected spokesmen represent the Establishment, violence may be the only effective response.

en I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence
  Malcolm X

en I had heard that he was writing stories under different names. Something about how he claimed to be a Vietnam veteran at one point, claimed to be a Native American Indian at another point. His parents were a very middle-class, working, typical American family. He was never involved in Vietnam, he was never a Native American Indian, his parents weren't Native Americans - there wasn't anything like that in his past.

en Further, while we are hopeful that, in aggregate, we are seeing a bottoming in activity levels, there is no convincing evidence that our North American markets will rebound meaningfully before year-end. In addition, European, Asian and, to a lesser extent, South American markets are beginning to decline in lagged response to the North American weakness.

en Ladies and gentlemen, fasten your seat belts. Indian steel demand is set to take off.


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