You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONEducation 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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Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
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Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met – obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.
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When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.
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To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
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Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
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As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
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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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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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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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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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No member of our generation who wasn’t a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
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I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.
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Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we’ve already wasted fifteen minutes.
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The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
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Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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