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We beg you to save young America from the blight of race prejudice. Do not bind the children within the narrow circles of your own lives. ↗

— Charles Hamilton Houston

#beg #bind #blight #children #circles

The most effective step that may be taken to increase the production of these crops is to enlarge the acreage devoted to them in the regions where they are grown habitually. ↗

— David F. Houston

#crops #devoted #effective #enlarge #grown

For the Gulf States, perhaps no forage crop of which the available seed supply is relatively abundant exceeds the velvet bean in potential value. This legume possesses also the ability to make a crop when planted relatively late. ↗

— David F. Houston

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One could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact. ↗

— David F. Houston

#any #argument #could #drive #fact

The older, thinner, and less productive grass lands, however, frequently can be made to produce much larger yields of feed in corn than if left, as they are, in unproductive grass. ↗

— David F. Houston

#feed #frequently #grass #however #lands

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities. ↗

— Jean Houston

#height #into #kaleidoscope #laughter #new

Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world, in a very real sense the key to the unlocking of meaning and the wellspring of creativity. ↗

— Jean Houston

#doors #indeed #key #meaning #our

A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under. ↗

— Sam Houston

#improve #leader #live #lives #other

I was raised thinking that moral and ethical standards are universals that apply equally to everyone. And these values aren't easily compatible with the kind of religion that posits a Creator. To my way of thinking, an omnipotent being who sets up a universe in which thinking beings proliferate, grow old, and die (usually in agony, alone, and in fear) is a cosmic sadist. ↗

— Charles Stross

#cosmic-sadist #death #everything #life #religion

I am not self-destructive. I am not a person who wants to die. ↗

— Whitney Houston

#die #i #i am #person #self-destructive