A nation that fails to plan intelligently for the development and protection of its precious waters will be condemned to wither because of its shortsightedness. The hard lessons of history are clear, written on the deserted sands and ruins of once proud civilizations.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON…International education cannot be the work of one country. It is the responsibility and promise of all nations. It calls for free exchange and full collaboration…The knowledge of our citizens is one treasure which grows only when it is shared.
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But if future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than with sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as God really made it, not just as it looked when we got through with it.
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I want real loyalty. I want someone who will kiss my ass in Macy’s window, and say it smells like roses.
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If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
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To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
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We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.
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Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
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If you let a bully come in and chase you out of your front yard, he’ll be on your porch and the next day he’ll rape your wife in your own bed.
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Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.
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Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
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I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.
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Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.
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No member of our generation who wasn’t a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
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Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
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…International education cannot be the work of one country. It is the responsibility and promise of all nations. It calls for free exchange and full collaboration…The knowledge of our citizens is one treasure which grows only when it is shared.
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