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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.

Lyndon B. Johnson

To sustain an environment suitable for man, we must fight on a thousand battlegrounds. Despite all of our wealth and knowledge, we cannot create a redwood forest, a wild river, or a gleaming seashore.
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Battle Creation Fight Knowledge Man Ourselves Sea Wealth Wild
You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
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Learning Talk Yourself
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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Himself Mental Oppression Sex Violence Wife Yourself
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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Angry Destruction Hands Oneself Poor Suffering
To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
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Inspirational Worst
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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Eyes Law Mother Room Yourself
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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Destroy Each Other Knowledge Live Understand
John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.
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Country Danger Hate Mindset Ourselves Victim
Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
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Enemy Friendship Hug Yourself
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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Democracy Government Greatness Honesty Truth Weapon
Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
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Journey Peace Time
Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone’s achievement.
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Achievement Missing Opportunity Word
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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Fast Responsibility Trouble
As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
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Funny Himself Men Stars Togetherness
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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Government Myself Worst
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.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Challenge Destiny Ourselves Place Safety

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