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Lyndon B. Johnson has 302 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
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It is the excitement of becoming - always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again- but always trying and always gaining
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For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that…
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I don't have any handicap. I am all handicap.
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Many have no happier moments than those that they pass in solitude, abandoned to their own imagination, which sometimes puts sceptres in…
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I believe in the American tradition of separation of church and state which is expressed in the First Amendment to the Constitution.…
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...in the decline of life shame and grief are of short duration; whether it be that we bear easily what we have…
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Nothing is more despicable than the old age of a passionate man. When the vigour of youth fails him, and his amusements…
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If the purpose of lamentation be to excite pity, it is surely superfluous for age and weakness to tell their plaintive stories;…
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Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation. He recounts…
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...that though they may refuse to grow wise, they must inevitably grow old; ...that the proper solaces of age are not music…
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The prospect of penury in age is so gloomy and terrifying that every man who looks before him must resolve to avoid…
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In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin Donuts…
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In terms of the revolution, I believe that the revolution will be a revolution of dispossessed people in this country: that's the…
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The Great Spirit Chief who rules above all will smile upon this land... and this time the Indian race is waiting and…
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We were taught to believe that the Great Spirit sees and hears everything, and that he never forgets, that hereafter he will…
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I am tired of talk that comes to nothing It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and…
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All I try to do is portray Indians as we are, in creative ways. With imagination and poetry. I think a lot…
— Sherman Alexie
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Humor is widely used by Indians to deal with life. Indian gatherings are marked by laughter and jokes, many directed at the…
— Paula Gunn Allen
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What we did in the 1960s and early 1970s was raise the consciousness of white America that this government has a responsibility…
— Dennis Banks
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Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and…
— Black Elk
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This country was a lot better off when the Indians were running it.
— Vine Deloria, Jr.
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I certainly don't object to [writers] trying to imagine the lives of other societies, but you have to do it with a…
— Michael Dorris
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It's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity.
— Louise Erdrich
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