"Texas has been hit especially hard this year by a continuing drought, threatening high winds and increasingly destructive range fires. Simply, these conditions have lead to extremely adverse conditions in the agriculture industry."

-- Michael McCaul

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“Ants in the house seem to be, not intruders, but the owners.”

Source : Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2015). “Cross Creek”, p.135, Booklassic
“Cultural America is under siege. And as the Soviet experience illustrates, ideology is a weak glue to hold together people otherwise lacking racial, ethnic, and cultural sources of community.”

Source : Samuel P. Huntington (2005). “Who Are We?: The Challenges to America's National Identity”, Simon & Schuster
“Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar.”
“He expects us to kill him," Palomides said to Dinadan. "Some people are so demanding," Dinadan replied. "Considering we've only just met, I mean.”

Source : Gerald Morris (2008). “The Ballad of Sir Dinadan”, p.149, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I used to be a chemical-engineering student, but I started studying acting, and I went for a cattle call, up against hundreds of people. They tore me down because I was too tall. They said "How tall are you?" "6'5"." "Next.”
“The simplest kind of guidance (critique) comes every day, and many times a day in the form of discomfort.”
“In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.”
“I'm not out here looking for no garbage cans to curl up in. I'm looking for the same good dreams everybody else is hoping for, but I don't see where they are. Or maybe I see where they are, but I don't see how to get there.”

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