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Minister of Culture @BolingFootball | 42 connoisseur | Citizen of the Republic of Texas | @VanVleckISD Alum #LeopardNation 🐆

Van Vleck, TX - Boling, TX
Joined July 2015
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When you stop reading books, you lose your sharpness of speech, critical thinking, and imagination. A closed book is a closed mind. DON'T EVER STOP READING.
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I am still a fan of this way of living…
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Thomas Jefferson in a letter to John Adams, Monticello, January 21, 1812: "I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus & Thucydides, for Newton & Euclid; & I find myself much the happier."
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"Absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence" -- Dr. Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
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The USMNT can still win if Mike Pence has the courage.
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“In those days Baptists considered card-playing to be the devil’s work. But dominoes, for some reason, weren’t sinful.” ---- Dennis Roberson, author of "Winning 42: Strategy & Lore of the National Game of Texas," re: how two boys, William A. Thomas and Walter Earl, invented the game of 42 in Garner, Texas in 1887.
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This week, we go Behind the Scenes with a mixed doubles tennis team at Boling. Watch the full story on Saturday at 11 p.m. on KHOU/CBS 11 and on all social platforms on Tuesday. Presented by @ChevyHouston
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Whether we believe in God depends very much on what we mean by God. - Carl Sagan
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It’s game day 🔒😈@BolingFootball @WhartonCoSports
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okay on the real though, the official team name is ✨golden girls✨ (because oldest olympic team) s/o to cecile🥹🤍
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Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work. - Leonardo da Vinci
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Historian Douglas Brinkley notes the felony conviction of a former American president by a jury of peers, proving all are equal under the law, would never have taken place in countries ruled by authoritarians. cbsn.ws/3X74dWS
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Albert Einstein and Marie Curie discussing near a lake, c. 1929.
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as mentioned in Sir Isaac Newton's 1676 letter to Robert Hooke ✍️
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Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever it has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved? - Carl Sagan
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