History of Membership of The Texas Supreme Court

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“It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Henderson: What about Congress and the Supreme Court and the President? We got to pay them, don’t we?
Grandpa: Not with my money, no sir.”
—Robert Riskin (1897–1955)

“A poet’s object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably.... For this reason poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts.”
—Aristotle (384–323 B.C.)

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—Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (b. 1922)

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—Fran Lebowitz (b. 1950)

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—Albert Einstein (1879–1955)

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—Ben Hecht (1893–1964)