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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.” quote by J. Frank Dobie — Download Open image

“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.”

J. Frank Dobie

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When I get ready to explain homemade fascism in America, I can take my example from the state capitol of Texas.

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The man for whom history is bunk is almost invariably as obtuse to the future as he is blind to the past.

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Luck is being ready for the chance.

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Great literature transcends its native land, but none that I know of ignores its soil.

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The average Ph.D. Thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.

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No cowboy ever quit while his life was hardest and his duties were most exacting.

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When he stood trembling with fear before the captor, bruised from falls by the restrictive rope, made submissive by choking, clogs, cuts and starvation,…

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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…

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I have come to value liberated minds as the supreme good of life on earth.

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The boundaries of culture and rainfall never follow survey lines.

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Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding an answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness.

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“The average PhD thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one gaveyard to another.”

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