#plains

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You who live your lives in cities or among peaceful ways cannot always tell whether your friends are the kind who would go through fire for you. But on the Plains one's friends have an opportunity to prove their mettle.


Buffalo Bill


#among #cannot #cities #fire #friends

Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place.


Jacques Delors


#american society #bad #bad guys #cinema #explains

I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below.


Daniel Boone


#astonishing #beheld #below #commanding #delight

On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the dawn of decision, sat down to wait, and waiting died.


Sam Ewing


#countless #countless millions #dawn #decision #died

When a man bores a woman, she complains. When a woman bores a man, he ignores her.


Mason Cooley


#complains #her #ignores #man #she

Marxism is an interpretation of history which explains the progress of society as a product of the expansion of the forces of production of the material means of life, that is, the development of economy.


Earl Browder


#economy #expansion #explains #forces #history

Windmills, which are used in the great plains of Holland and North Germany to supply the want of falling water, afford another instance of the action of velocity. The sails are driven by air in motion - by wind.


Hermann von Helmholtz


#afford #air #another #driven #falling

We used to go to the pictures every Saturday night but we had to leave a little bit early and get home and watch Match of the Day - and my wife still complains she missed the last five minutes of every film we saw.


Brian Clough


#complains #day #early #every #film

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.


James Joyce


#devised #english #ever #explains #ingenious

I've never been anywhere in my life like it and I only really noticed it when I returned to Los Angeles and then Berlin. Everybody is much better off in these places, there is not poverty like in Cuba, but everybody complains about things.


Wim Wenders


#angeles #anywhere #been #berlin #better