Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONEducation will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.
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It’s too bad, but the way American people are, now that they have all this capability, instead of taking advantage of it, they’ll probably just piss it all away.
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John ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
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If you have a mother-in-law with only one eye and she has it in the center of her forehead, don’t keep her in the living room.
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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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You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
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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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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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Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven’t given up trying.
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If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.
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If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ‘President Can’t Swim.’
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But, most of all, the Great Society is not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished work. It is a challenge constantly renewed, beckoning us toward a destiny where the meaning of our lives matches the marvelous products of our labor.
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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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Ambition is an uncomfortable companion many times. He creates a discontent with present surroundings and achievements; he is never satisfied but always pressing forward to better things in the future. Restless, energetic, purposeful, it is ambition that makes of the creature a real man.
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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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No national sovereignty rules in outer space. Those who venture there go as envoys of the entire human race. Their quest, therefore, must be for all mankind, and what they find should belong to all mankind.
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