"Texas can make it without the United States, but the United States cannot make it without Texas"

-- Sam Houston

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“All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea, would suffice to nourish the world.”
“You cannot save the land apart from the people, or the people apart from the land.”
“Being mortal, never pray for an untroubled life. Rather, ask the God to give you an enduring heart.”
“If I let myself sink into depression, I won't be able to get out. And then I'll be awfully unhappy. I just have to turn my face to the light and walk on. And trust that things will be all right.”
“Some commentators have drawn such a stark and gloomy picture of the Weimar Republic's early difficulties that the Republic seems foredoomed to failure from the outset... The conditions in which Weimar democracy were born were certainly not such as to help it flourish; and as it unfolded, it was clearly saddled with a burden of problems, in a range of areas.”

Source : Mary Fulbrook (2014). “A History of Germany 1918-2014: The Divided Nation”, p.15, John Wiley & Sons
“Even knowing the ending was sad, I wouldn't have deprived myself the beauty of the story.”

Source : Sandra Brown (2010). “Rainwater”, p.132, Simon and Schuster
“Wealth per se I never too much valued, and my acquaintance with its possessors has by no means increased my veneration for it.”
“I was here, and I loaded a shotgun on Independence Day, but I didn't kill anybody. I didn't drone any children. I didn't steal any children's future. I didn't sell this country into debt. I didn't do any of the crimes that the man two blocks over at the White House is responsible for,”

Source : "Pro-gun activist Adam Kokesh arrested after posting YouTube video". www.rt.com. July 10, 2013.

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