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b19cffc	I have said that Texas is a state of mind, but I think it is more than that. It is a mystique closely approximating a religion. And this is true to the extent that people either passionately love Texas or passionately hate it and, as in other religions, few people dare to inspect it for fear of losing their bearings in mystery or paradox. But I think there will be little quarrel with my feeling that Texas is one thing. For all its enormous range of space, climate, and physical appearance, and for all the internal squabbles, contentions, and strivings, Texas has a tight cohesiveness perhaps stronger than any other section of America. Rich, poor, Panhandle, Gulf, city, country, Texas is the obsession, the proper study, and the passionate possession of all Texans.	texas	John Steinbeck
5b01008	"I felt a little guilty about jangling the poor bugger's brains with that evil fantasy. But what the hell? Anybody who wanders around the world saying, "Hell yes, I'm from Texas," deserves whatever happens to him."	texas	Hunter S. Thompson
6c5dda1	"Thats what happens to Snow in Texas, lady. It freaking MELTS!!" Leo Valdez- The Lost Hero"	earth freak heo heroes hilarious jackson lady leo lost melts of-olympus percy rick-riordan snow texas valdez	Rick Riordan
6d6058e	"The woman stared at the ruined body. Blood dripped from her arm. A fine spray of red covered her face --must've been cast off when she slammed down the cans. She wiped her face with her left forearm and kicked the stalker's corpse with her sneakered foot. "Don't mess with Texas."	kickass texas	Ilona Andrews
bbe7396	"These are tough times for state governments. Huge deficits loom almost everywhere, from California to New York, from New Jersey to Texas.	2011 balanced-budget budgets california deficit-spending economics economy-of-california economy-of-new-jersey economy-of-new-york economy-of-texas economy-of-the-united-states financial-crisis-of-2007-2011 governor-of-texas new-jersey new-york politics rick-perry state-governments-of-the-us taxes texas texas-elections-2010 united-states united-states-elections-2010	Paul Krugman
7c5b81c	"At the risk of descending to unscientific generalizations, 90 percent of Texans give the other 10 percent a bad name." - "	gamblers texas	Mary Doria Russell
d82be27	This land was Mexican once, was Indian always and is. And will be again.	land méxico texas	Gloria E. Anzaldúa
f49be3f	What do the Texans say? All hat, no cattle.	boasting-quotes texas	Alexander McCall Smith
f6a0672	It would be nice to think that the menacing aspects of North Korea were for display also, that the bombs and reactors were Potemkin showcases or bargaining chips. On the plane from Beijing I met a group of unsmiling Texan types wearing baseball caps. They were the 'in-country' team from the International Atomic Energy Agency, there to inspect and neutralize North Korea's plutonium rods. Not a nice job, but, as they say, someone has to do it. Speaking of the most controversial reactor at Yongbyon, one of the guys said, 'No sweat. She's shut down now.' Nice to know. But then, so is the rest of North Korean society shut down--animation suspended, all dead quiet on the set, endlessly awaiting not action (we hope) or even cameras, but light.	baseball-caps beijing bombs china iaea north-korea north-korea-and-wmd nuclear-weapons nyongbyon plutonium texas	Christopher Hitchens
45aa8d9	Was ist das hochste, dass du je beim Munze-werfen verloren hast?	schießerei spannung texas tod	Cormac McCarthy
6257093	So much of how we see the world is the matter of interpretation. A matter of wishing and hoping rather than really deep-down believing.	collage football life love texas	Emily Giffin
7bddb4f	As Rachel ran with her 18-month-old son James Pratt, she was knocked down to the ground by a hoe, dragged by her hair, and separated from her child. She found herself taken to the area where her uncle Benjamin had been mutilated; arrows had been stuck in his body, and passing warriors thrust spears into it.	native-americans parker-s-fort southwest texas true-stories western	Noel Marie Fletcher

b19cffc

I have said that Texas is a state of mind, but I think it is more than that. It is a mystique closely approximating a religion. And this is true to the extent that people either passionately love Texas or passionately hate it and, as in other religions, few people dare to inspect it for fear of losing their bearings in mystery or paradox. But I think there will be little quarrel with my feeling that Texas is one thing. For all its enormous range of space, climate, and physical appearance, and for all the internal squabbles, contentions, and strivings, Texas has a tight cohesiveness perhaps stronger than any other section of America. Rich, poor, Panhandle, Gulf, city, country, Texas is the obsession, the proper study, and the passionate possession of all Texans.

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John Steinbeck

5b01008

"I felt a little guilty about jangling the poor bugger's brains with that evil fantasy. But what the hell? Anybody who wanders around the world saying, "Hell yes, I'm from Texas," deserves whatever happens to him."

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Hunter S. Thompson

6c5dda1

"Thats what happens to Snow in Texas, lady. It freaking MELTS!!" Leo Valdez- The Lost Hero"

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Rick Riordan

6d6058e

"The woman stared at the ruined body. Blood dripped from her arm. A fine spray of red covered her face --must've been cast off when she slammed down the cans. She wiped her face with her left forearm and kicked the stalker's corpse with her sneakered foot. "Don't mess with Texas."

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Ilona Andrews

bbe7396

"These are tough times for state governments. Huge deficits loom almost everywhere, from California to New York, from New Jersey to Texas.

2011 balanced-budget budgets california deficit-spending economics economy-of-california economy-of-new-jersey economy-of-new-york economy-of-texas economy-of-the-united-states financial-crisis-of-2007-2011 governor-of-texas new-jersey new-york politics rick-perry state-governments-of-the-us taxes texas texas-elections-2010 united-states united-states-elections-2010

Paul Krugman

7c5b81c

"At the risk of descending to unscientific generalizations, 90 percent of Texans give the other 10 percent a bad name." - "

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Mary Doria Russell

d82be27

This land was Mexican once, was Indian always and is. And will be again.

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Gloria E. Anzaldúa

f49be3f

What do the Texans say? All hat, no cattle.

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Alexander McCall Smith

f6a0672

It would be nice to think that the menacing aspects of North Korea were for display also, that the bombs and reactors were Potemkin showcases or bargaining chips. On the plane from Beijing I met a group of unsmiling Texan types wearing baseball caps. They were the 'in-country' team from the International Atomic Energy Agency, there to inspect and neutralize North Korea's plutonium rods. Not a nice job, but, as they say, someone has to do it. Speaking of the most controversial reactor at Yongbyon, one of the guys said, 'No sweat. She's shut down now.' Nice to know. But then, so is the rest of North Korean society shut down--animation suspended, all dead quiet on the set, endlessly awaiting not action (we hope) or even cameras, but light.

baseball-caps beijing bombs china iaea north-korea north-korea-and-wmd nuclear-weapons nyongbyon plutonium texas

Christopher Hitchens

45aa8d9

Was ist das hochste, dass du je beim Munze-werfen verloren hast?

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Cormac McCarthy

6257093

So much of how we see the world is the matter of interpretation. A matter of wishing and hoping rather than really deep-down believing.

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Emily Giffin

7bddb4f

As Rachel ran with her 18-month-old son James Pratt, she was knocked down to the ground by a hoe, dragged by her hair, and separated from her child. She found herself taken to the area where her uncle Benjamin had been mutilated; arrows had been stuck in his body, and passing warriors thrust spears into it.

native-americans parker-s-fort southwest texas true-stories western

Noel Marie Fletcher