"Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes."

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Buffalo Bill

#Numbers Quotes #Miles Quotes #Command Quotes

“You don't need a marriage license to live with someone, to have the security of a home, to rear any number of children, to have years of companionship; it's not illegal, but the moment you want to screw somebody, you have to get a license from the state to use your genital organs -or run the risk of being charged with any number of crimes carrying sentences up to and including death. So sex is really the only sensible reason for getting married.”
“The very concept of law that protects us from tyranny has been lost. No longer the people's shield, law has become a weapon in the hands of government.”
“Being diagnosed with cancer really opened my eyes to the fact anyone can have it and that even though we think we have control over everything in our lives, we don't.”
“How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year!”

Source : Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1863). “Out-door Papers”, p.239
“I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.”
“Despite the fact that there's billions of dollars sitting in the Iraqi government reserves, somehow they are incapable of getting it out to the people. There are a very large number of people here who are on the edge of starvation. For those sort of people - a sizable chunk of people - that service makes them regard Muqtada as a sort of god.”

Source : "Who Is Iraq’s 'Firebrand Cleric'?". Interview with Justin Elliott, www.motherjones.com. March 31, 2008.
“It is so much easier to extol the virtues of civility than to talk civilly about the virtues we need to uphold.”
“From that moment the pendulum went into reverse”

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