If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONBut 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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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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You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
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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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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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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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The poor suffer twice at the rioter’s hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.
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Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
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I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.
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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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There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
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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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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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At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man’s unending search for freedom.
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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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