The job, of course, will never be finished. For a nation, as for an individual, education is a perpetually unfinished journey, a continuing process of discovery.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONIf 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.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
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Any man who’s not willing to take half a loaf in a negotiation, well, that man never went to bed hungry.
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Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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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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At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems – the answer for all the problems of the world – come to a single word. That word is “education.”
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Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone’s achievement.
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There is no issue of States’ rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.
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I’ll tell you what’s at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.
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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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Light at the end of the tunnel? We don’t even have a tunnel; we don’t even know where the tunnel is.
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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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Our understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.
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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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Jerry Ford is so dumb he can’t walk and chew gum at the same time. He’s a nice fellow, but he spent too much time playing football without a helmet.
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