"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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--Lyndon B. Johnson, In Tennessee, an off-the-cuff observation he made to a young staffer, Bill Moyers.
It distresses us to return work which is not perfect.
-- Peter O'Toole, From a note he once got back from Sycamore Cleaners upon struggling to clean his leather jacket. "So I'm having that on my tombstone", as he told to David Letterman