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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.”

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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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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Texans are the only race of people known to anthropologists who do not depend on breeding for propagation. Like princes and lords, they can…

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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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