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user-inactivated · 4108 days ago · link · · parent · post: What is your favorite quote? Why does it mean so much to you?
"Circumstances make men." I'm not sure anyone actually said that; in my children's history of the Texas Rangers (the cowboy police force, not the baseball team) it's attributed to Anonymous. But it strikes me as one of the most true sentences I've read and has ever since I first read that book when I was 7. I can't really explain why it means so much to me, or why that book means so much to me. But if any of you have some spare time, read up on the Rangers, because I bet there's never been a more interesting para-police force, and that quote is well-evidenced in the annals of their history.