14 Quotes by J. Frank Dobie
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The average PhD thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one gaveyard to another.
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Luck is being ready for the chance.
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I have come to value liberated minds as the supreme good of life on earth.
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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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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 sat down with the greatest philosopher on earth – the fire.”
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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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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 boundaries of culture and rainfall never follow survey lines.
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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.
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