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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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Complacency is the forerunner of mediocrity. You can never work too hard on attitudes, effort and technique.
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Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure... make sure you are always receptive to new ideas.
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The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Desire is the presentiment of our inner abilities, and the forerunner of our ultimate accomplishments.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Lethargy is the forerunner of death to the public liberty.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Criticism is the forerunner of divorce, the cultivator of rebellion, sometimes an agent that leads to failure.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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Prayer is the forerunner of mercy. Turn to sacred history, and you will find that scarecely ever did a great mercy come…
— Charles Spurgeon
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For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles.
— Jim Capaldi
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Just as the dawn is the forerunner of the arising of the sun, so true friendship is the forerunner of the arising…
— Gautama Buddha
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SORCERY, n. The ancient prototype and forerunner of political influence. It was, however, deemed less respectable and sometimes was punished by torture…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Jerry often says that Slam Bradley was really the forerunner of Superman, because we turned it out with no restrictions, complete freedom…
— Joe Shuster
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Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.
— Carlos Fuentes
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