| We are inclined that if we watch a football game or baseball game, we have taken part in it. |
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- John F. Kennedy |
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| Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. |
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- John F. Kennedy |
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| The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution. |
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- John F. Kennedy |
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| War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today. |
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- John F. Kennedy |
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| Conformity is that jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. |
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- John F. Kennedy |
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| We cannot reform the world.... Uncle Sugar is as dangerous a role for us to play as Uncle Shylock. |
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- John F. Kennedy |
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| We dare not forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution. |
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- John F. Kennedy |
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| When written in Chinese the word "crisis" is composed of two characters - one represents danger and the other represents opportunity. |
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- John F. Kennedy |
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| And so, my fellow americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man. |
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- John F. Kennedy |
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| Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation. |
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| The problems of this world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were. |
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- John F. Kennedy |
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| We need men who can dream of things that never were. |
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- John F. Kennedy |
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| Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. |
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- John F. Kennedy |
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| Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. |
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- John F. Kennedy |
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| For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived. |
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- John F. Kennedy |
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| The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. |
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- John F. Kennedy |
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| Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. |
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- John F. Kennedy |
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| I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours. |
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- John F. Kennedy |
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| We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. |
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- John F. Kennedy |
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| The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!' |
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- John F. Kennedy |
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