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• I could have killed you.” “Or I could have killed you,” Percy said. Jason shrugged. “If there’d been an ocean in Kansas, maybe.” “I don’t need an ocean—” “Boys,” Annabeth interrupted, “I’m sure you both would’ve been wonderful at killing each other. But right now, you need some rest.” Food first,” Percy said. “Please?

  Rick Riordan

  Ocean, Boys, Jason

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• Coach Hedge yelled,“Thar she blows! Kansas, ahoy!” “Holy Hephaestus,” Leo muttered. “He really needs to work on his shipspeak.

  Rick Riordan

  Blow, Needs, Holy

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• Well, you can certainly teach free-throwing. And you can teach the boys to pass at angles and run in curves. - University of Kansas Jayhawks head coach Phog Allen, reposting the contention of his Kansas predecessor and inventor of basketball James Naismith, pictured, that basketball could not be coached
  When I dunk, I put something on it. I want the ball to hit the floor before I do.

  Darryl Dawkins

  Basketball, Running, Boys

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• We actually had a Kansa band softball team.

  Phil Ehart

  Softball, Team, Band

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• Yesterday the Supreme Court lifted the ban on same-sex marriage in Kansas. They didn't give a reason for the ruling, but then again when a state is famous for a Judy Garland musical about a rainbow and a wizard who comes out of a closet, do you really need an excuse?

  Jimmy Fallon

  Sex, Yesterday, Giving

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• I was raised on a farm in Kansas where we lived next door to my Grandma Dew, and I was her shadow. We went everywhere together - to the bank, the doctor, the Early Bird Garden Club, and to an endless procession of Church meetings.

  Sheri L. Dew

  Grandma, Garden, Doctors

  Sheri L. Dew (2001). “No Doubt about it”

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• We were 6-4 and everybody doubted us. We lost to the Kansas City Chiefs and that week we had a players meeting and really talked about where we really want to go. It's not about the record. At the end of the day it comes down to are we going to keep focusing on each other and are we going to keep getting better day by day? We ignored the noise, we ignored all the talk from the outside.

  Russell Wilson

  Player, Cities, Kansas City

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• We cannot avoid the globalization of knowledge and information. When I was a boy growing up in Kansas, I could never think about a Buddhist, or a Hindu, or Muslim, or even a Protestant - I grew up in such a Catholic ghetto. That's not possible anymore, unless you live in a cave or something. So either we have knowledge of what the other religions and other denominations are saying, and how they tie into the common thread, or we end up just being dangerously ignorant of other people and therefore prejudiced.

  Richard Rohr

  Buddhist, Growing Up, Ghetto

  Source: ryanthomasneace.com

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• You can't just come from Kansas, go into fashion and be all naive. The fashion world is very different to where I'm from.

  Lindsey Wixson

  Fashion, Different, World

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• I love hats! I collect vintage ones - I find them at antique shops in Kansas.

  Lindsey Wixson

  Vintage, Antiques, Hats

  "Lindsey Wixson's a Mad Hatter" by EmilyHebert, www.elle.com. February 15, 2011.

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• It will be just as easy for nations to get along in a republic of the world as it is for you to get along in the republic of the United States. Now, if Kansas and Colorado have a quarrel over a watershed they don't call out the national guard in each state and go to war over it. They bring suit in the Supreme Court and abide by its decision. There isn't a reason in the world why we can't do that internationally.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Rivers, Water

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Harry S. Truman, 1945, Volume 1". Book by Harry S. Truman, Best Books on, 1961.

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• Kansas has always considered itself a "rock band" - some people might say "symphonic rock band," others might say a "classical rock band," but we've kind've prided ourselves on being a rock band. Kansas rocks.

  Phil Ehart

  Rocks, People, Band

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 25, 2015.

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• Nobody knows this, but one of us has just been traded to Kansas City.

  Casey Stengel

  Yankees, Cities, Kansas City

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• I grew up in Arkansas and that's the law. My dad was a high school basketball coach, so I was raised as a coach's son and I was a baseball player back in Arkansas, and I lived in Texas, too, so I was just surrounded by sports. So that's what I was going to do: Pitch for the St Louis Cardinals. I had no idea I was going to be an actor. So I got my collar bone broken in the Kansas City Royals training camp. And once I got hurt I started doing other things for a while.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Basketball, Sports, Baseball

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. October 7, 2004.

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• I obviously wanted to play for the Kansas City Royals. (Laughter) I also knew that was far-fetched. The truth is I don't really know what I wanted to do.

  Josh Earnest

  Laughter, Play, Cities

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• We [ The Kansas]'re somewhat hard-pressed at this time to imagine any bands that'll be around 40 years from now (and that's our personal opinion).

  Phil Ehart

  Personal Opinions, Years, Band

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• It's always a challenge to hit the stage running, with Kansas' music, because it's demanding from the very first note, so we try to be up to the task and keep our pre-show routine pretty much focused on the music.

  Phil Ehart

  Running, Challenges, Trying

  "We are Rich Williams and Phil Ehart from the band Kansas - AUA". Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com.

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• The board transported its jurisdiction to a never-never land where a Dorothy of the new millennium might exclaim: "They still call it Kansas, but I don't think we're in the real world anymore."

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Real, Thinking, Land

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• I don't enjoy "Dust in the Wind"as much. But I do enjoy "Song for America," "Carry on, Wayward Son," and many songs- Kansas is really a drummer's dream to play in. And I like 'em all.

  Phil Ehart

  Dream, Song, Dust

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• Our early days - our audiences were always very sparse. We played very obscure places in very obscure parts of the world, mainly Kansas. We played frat parties, we played high school proms, we played clubs.

  Phil Ehart

  Party, School, World

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 25, 2015.

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• Some of the most exciting space education in the country is not coming out of Washington or New York or California or even Texas. It's coming from a place in Kansas called the Cosmosphere.

  Gene Cernan

  Country, New York, Texas

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• Im a regular dude from Kansas who grew up with pigs and cows.

  Eric Stonestreet

  Pigs, Cows, Grew Up

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• I'm not saying these flying discs don't really exist, but nobody living in Kansas City has seen them and that's a dry state.

  Jack Paar

  Cities, Kansas City, Flying

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• I always found Louise Brooks interesting. She was an icon of the silent - film era, and I knew she'd grown up in Kansas, and that she was smart and rebellious and sharp - tongued.

  Laura Moriarty

  Smart, Silent Films, Icons

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• Organizer is kind of a grand term for what I was doing. I answered an ad that the Presbyterian Church of Chicago put up on college campuses. I was at the University of Kansas, and it's somewhat relevant to my life and work that I'm a Jew. But they weren't doing a religious litmus test. They wanted energetic, civil-rights-committed college students to come help them run some summer programs.

  Sara Paretsky

  Summer, Running, Religious

  Source: www.progressive.org

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