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> [Texans are the only race of people known to anthropologists who do not depend on breeding for propagation. Like princes and lords, they can be made by breath; plus a big hat-which comparatively few Texans wear.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-frank-dobie/texans-are-the-only-race-of-people-known-to-anthropologists-who-do/)

[J. Frank Dobie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-frank-dobie/)

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## More by J. Frank Dobie

> [When I get ready to explain homemade fascism in America, I can take my example from the state capitol of Texas.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-frank-dobie/when-i-get-ready-to-explain-homemade-fascism-in-america-i-can-take-my/)

[J. Frank Dobie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-frank-dobie/)

> [The man for whom history is bunk is almost invariably as obtuse to the future as he is blind to the past.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-frank-dobie/the-man-for-whom-history-is-bunk-is-almost-invariably-as-obtuse-to/)

[J. Frank Dobie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-frank-dobie/)

> [Luck is being ready for the chance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-frank-dobie/luck-is-being-ready-for-the-chance/)

[J. Frank Dobie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-frank-dobie/)

> [Great literature transcends its native land, but none that I know of ignores its soil.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-frank-dobie/great-literature-transcends-its-native-land-but-none-that-i-know-of/)

[J. Frank Dobie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-frank-dobie/)

> [The average Ph.D. Thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-frank-dobie/the-average-ph-d-thesis-is-nothing-but-a-transference-of-bones-from/)

[J. Frank Dobie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-frank-dobie/)

> [No cowboy ever quit while his life was hardest and his duties were most exacting.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-frank-dobie/no-cowboy-ever-quit-while-his-life-was-hardest-and-his-duties-were/)

[J. Frank Dobie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-frank-dobie/)

> [When he stood trembling with fear before the captor, bruised from falls by the restrictive rope, made submissive by choking, clogs, cuts and starvation,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-frank-dobie/when-he-stood-trembling-with-fear-before-the-captor-bruised-from/)

[J. Frank Dobie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-frank-dobie/)

> [Out of Frederic Remington's Sundown Leflare graved on the mantel. Sundown and another mountain man cooked and ate their supper. "Then," says Remington, "they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-frank-dobie/out-of-frederic-remington-s-sundown-leflare-graved-on-the-mantel/)

[J. Frank Dobie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-frank-dobie/)

> [Texans are the only race of people known to anthropologists who do not depend on breeding for propagation. Like princes and lords, they can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-frank-dobie/texans-are-the-only-race-of-people-known-to-anthropologists-who-do/)

[J. Frank Dobie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-frank-dobie/)

> [I have come to value liberated minds as the supreme good of life on earth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-frank-dobie/i-have-come-to-value-liberated-minds-as-the-supreme-good-of-life-on/)

[J. Frank Dobie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-frank-dobie/)

> [The boundaries of culture and rainfall never follow survey lines.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-frank-dobie/the-boundaries-of-culture-and-rainfall-never-follow-survey-lines/)

[J. Frank Dobie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-frank-dobie/)

> [Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding an answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-frank-dobie/putting-on-the-spectacles-of-science-in-expectation-of-finding-an/)

[J. Frank Dobie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-frank-dobie/)

> [“The average PhD thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one gaveyard to another.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-frank-dobie/the-average-phd-thesis-is-nothing-but-a-transference-of-bones-from/)

[J. Frank Dobie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-frank-dobie/)

> [The chief contribution made by white men of the Americas to the folk songs of the world ——- the cowboy songs of Texas and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-frank-dobie/the-chief-contribution-made-by-white-men-of-the-americas-to-the-folk/)

[J. Frank Dobie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-frank-dobie/)

> [The most beautiful, the most spirited and the most inspiring creature ever to print foot on the grasses of America.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-frank-dobie/the-most-beautiful-the-most-spirited-and-the-most-inspiring-creature/)

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