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No member of our generation who wasn’t a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Of course, I may go into a strange bedroom every now and then that I don’t want you to write about, but otherwise you can write everything.
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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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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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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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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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You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
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Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
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There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.
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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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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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The noblest search is the search for excellence.
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We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter – and to write it in the books of law.
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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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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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