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Kansas, officially the State of Kansas, is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. Its capital is Topeka and its largest city is Wichita.
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Quotes[edit]
- I'm as corny as Kansas in August
I'm as normal as blueberry pie
No more a smart little girl with no heart
I have found me a wonderful guy.
- Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore. We must be over the rainbow!
- Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, and Edgar Allan Woolf, The Wizard of Oz (1939). [Note: This line is ranked #4 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema].
- At the People's College in Fort Scott, Kansas, my mother met Arthur Le Sueur, who with Helen Keller, Eugene Debs, and Charles Steinmetz had founded the greatest workers' school in the country. Thousands of farmers and hillbilly men, miners, and other workers took correspondence courses in workers' law and workers' English and workers' history.
- Meridel Le Sueur "The Ancient People and the Newly Come" (1976)
- Kansas suffers from two great robbers, the Sante Fe railroad and the loan sharks. The common people are robbed to enrich their masters.
- Mary Elizabeth Lease, "The Red Dragon of Wall Street Vs. the Farmer" (1891)
- When liberals' presidential nominees consistently fail to carry Kansas, liberals do not rush to read a book titled "What's the Matter With Liberals' Nominees?" No, the book they turned into a bestseller is titled "What's the Matter With Kansas?" Notice a pattern here?
- George Will, column, September 14, 2006, "Dems Vs. Wal-mart" at jewishworldreview.com.
External links[edit]
Encyclopedic article on Kansas on Wikipedia
