"The last thing I wanted to do was…" — Lyndon B. Johnson
"The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President."
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317 Quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson
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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…
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For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the…
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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…
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I believe in the American tradition of separation of church and state which is expressed in the First Amendment to…
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...in the decline of life shame and grief are of short duration; whether it be that we bear easily what…
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Nothing is more despicable than the old age of a passionate man. When the vigour of youth fails him, and…
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If the purpose of lamentation be to excite pity, it is surely superfluous for age and weakness to tell their…
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Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation.…
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...that though they may refuse to grow wise, they must inevitably grow old; ...that the proper solaces of age are…
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The prospect of penury in age is so gloomy and terrifying that every man who looks before him must resolve…
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be…
— Hannah Arendt
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
— Aristotle
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Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it…
— Lance Armstrong
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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
— Isaac Asimov
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Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank…
— Brooks Atkinson
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When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things -…
— Rowan Atkinson
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The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa…
— Chinua Achebe
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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.
— Marcus Aurelius
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And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.
— Marcus Aurelius
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India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still…
— Sri Aurobindo
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I'm an independent. I'm a centrist. A new generation is arriving that has grown up with a multiplicity of choice…
— John Avlon
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