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"I didn't go to high school. I think that after you learn to read and write and do your numbers and flush the toilet behind yourself, you don't need no more schoolin'. You need to get out in the water and swim."
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"I rope steers in team roping events. There's a header and a heeler on a roping team, and I'm the heeler."

"What I know about poker, you can fit into a thimble with room left over, but I'm learning."

"I'm a widower with three sons and seven grandchildren. One of my sons is my partner on the ranch."

"Hopefully, generations after us will continue to protect, preserve, and look after this wonderful land."

"I'm not anybody's judge; I don't know what motivates people to do what they do. But I have a lot of admiration for anybody who can start with absolutely nothing and make a little something out of it."

"I raise quarter horses. Mine are mostly thoroughbred cross horses, a little bigger horses than some people like. I sell them or use them on the ranch. A lot of them go to the rodeo arena and some of them go to racetracks."

"I've already got my rent paid, and it's too late in my life for me to go around talking up stuff that I don't like or believe in."
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"Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next."

"It's - as opposed to tape where you have a magnetic tape that's excited by frequencies that you hit, digital was a process where musical sounds are transferred to numbers and stored as numbers."

"We find them smaller and fainter, in constantly increasing numbers, and we know that we are reaching into space, farther and farther, until, with the faintest nebulae that can be detected with the greatest telescopes, we arrive at the frontier of the known universe."

"I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done."

"We don't know what we're writing until it just comes out. We don't sit around crunching numbers."

"When two elements combine and form more than one compound, the masses of one element that react with a fixed mass of the other are in the ratio of small whole numbers."
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