"We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors."

-- Lyndon B. Johnson

#Education Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Doors Quotes

“Funeralese has had its ups and downs. The word 'morticians,' first used in Embalmers Monthly for February, 1895, was barred by the Chicago Tribune in 1932, 'not for lack of sympathy with the ambition of undertakers to be well regarded, but because of it. If they haven't the sense to save themselves from their own lexicographers, we shall not be guilty of abetting them in their folly.”

Source : JESSICA MITFORD (1963). “THE AMERICAN WAY OF DEATH”
“As we enter into exquisite awareness of the life that want to live as us, we learn to love deeply. - We claim our passion.”
“When we're putting out records that people are responding to, it's amazing. And it's obviously what we shoot for every time. It's a tricky balancing act. But as long as it's sort of a righteous idea, then you're good to go.”
“Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy... or they become legend.”

Source : "Fictional character: One Stab". "Legends of the Fall", www.imdb.com. December 23, 1994.
“President Obama insists hes a free-market guy. But you have to wonder whether he understands how a free economy really works.”
“Muzzle control has to be a religion. You cannot point that weapon at one of your brothers-or yourself. Know where you barrel is at all times, and know the condition of your weapon-loaded or unloaded, bolt forward or to the rear, round in the chamber or not, safety on or off. Keep your finger off the trigger unless you're going to kill something.”

Source : Dick Couch (2007). “Chosen Soldier: The Making of a Special Forces Warrior”, p.177, Three Rivers Press
“If you never allow your children to exceed what they can do, how are they ever going to manage adult life - where a lot of it is managing more than you thought you could manage?”
“You don't believe in God, Rachel. You don't believe in goodness or love or mercy, do you?" "I haven't seen enough to form an opinion." "But you believe in the devil?" "When I'm sitting in a car with him, yes," she said.”

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