"We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it."

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Source : Johnson, Lyndon B. (1965). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964”, p.54, Best Books on

Lyndon B. Johnson

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“Most people aren't anywhere near to realizing their creative potential, in part because they're laboring in environments that impede intrinsic motivation.”
“Poetry cannot take sides except with life.”
“I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elvis. It was people hanging on every word, and I felt very uncomfortable a lot of times.”
“I was just different. When the other kids gravitated to football or basketball, I went fishing and skating. I was into trapping animals, pheasants and squirrels. Not only was I trapper, I was a taxidermist.”

Source : "Life after Tulsa". Interview with Alexis Petridis, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2003.
“All creation is a mine, and every man a miner.”
“There are several paths one can take, but not every path is open to you.”
“There is a tonic strength, in the hour of sorrow and affliction, in escaping from the world and society and getting back to the simple duties and interests we have slighted and forgotten. Our world grows smaller, but it grows dearer and greater. Simple things have a new charm for us, and we suddenly realize that we have been renouncing all that is greatest and best, in our pursuit of some phantom.”
“I've never wanted to kill myself over anything major. It's always the little things that do me in.”

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