The man for whom history is bunk is almost invariably as obtuse to the future as he is blind to the past.
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."
The boundaries of culture and rainfall never follow survey lines.
I have come to value liberated minds as the supreme good of life on earth.
Luck is being ready for the chance.
A man from Iowa or Illinois will say 'I'm from the Middle West'..a Georgian or a Mississipian may admit to being merely a Southerner...but no Texan, given the opportunity, ever said otherwise than 'I'm from Texas'.