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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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I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to…
— Octavia Butler
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When I'm in England, I know I'm a visitor, but being a white man in England with ancestry that's German and Italian,…
— Nicolas Cage
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We do not draw conclusions with our eyes, but with our reasoning powers, and if the whole of the rest of living…
— August Weismann
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Every living being is also a fossil. Within it, all the way down to the microscopic structure of its proteins, it bears…
— Jacques Monod
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All scientists agree that evolution has occurred-that all life comes from a common ancestry, that there has been extinction, and that new…
— Lynn Margulis
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Men who pride themselves on their ancestry are like the potato plant, the most part of which is under ground.
— William Tyler
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I want to be a positive role model, especially for kids and Aboriginal people... When people see me, often all they see…
— Cathy Freeman
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And when you tell me that somebody's skin color or gender is going to determine their prospects in this world, that is…
— Alan Keyes
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When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.
— Alex Haley
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I get anxious. That lovely Jewish guilt that comes with ancestry.
— Maya Rudolph
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For those of us who are fortunate to share an Irish ancestry, we take great pride in the contributions that Irish-Americans.
— John F. Kerry
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If the means were available, we could trace our ancestry - yours and mine - back to the first blob of life-like…
— Clifford D. Simak
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