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John F. Kennedy

Society
The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
3.5 · 36 votes · 80 reads
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Virtues
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
4.8 · 42 votes · 24 reads
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Thought and Reason
The day before my inauguration President Eisenhower told me, ''You'll find that no easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, somebody else has solved them.'' I found that hard to believe, but now I know it i
5.0 · 21 votes · 91 reads
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Thought and Reason
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived, and dishonest - but the myth - persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
4.7 · 10 votes · 200 reads
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Virtues
The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.
5.0 · 35 votes · 141 reads
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Thought and Reason
The human mind is our fundamental resource.
3.5 · 28 votes · 4 reads
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Feelings
The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is unchangeable or certain.
4.9 · 20 votes · 69 reads
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Time
The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of this planet.
3.4 · 64 votes · 52 reads
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Various
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shinning.
4.0 · 15 votes · 47 reads
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Society
The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion.
4.6 · 31 votes · 132 reads
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Art and Culture
There is a terrific disadvantage in not having the abrasive quality of the press applied to you daily. Even though we never like it, and even though we wish they didn't write it, and even though we disapprove, there isn't any doubt that we could not do th
3.3 · 11 votes · 151 reads
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Nature
There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life
3.0 · 41 votes · 77 reads
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Society
This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.
3.2 · 25 votes · 130 reads
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Government and Politics
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
3.9 · 52 votes · 114 reads
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Feelings
True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.
3.0 · 24 votes · 189 reads
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Society
Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
3.3 · 9 votes · 148 reads
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Various
We hold the view that the people make the best judgment in the long run.
4.1 · 23 votes · 199 reads
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Various
We want to be first; not first if, not first but; but first!
3.8 · 24 votes · 51 reads
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Society
We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.
4.8 · 51 votes · 1 reads
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Nature
We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
4.7 · 16 votes · 4 reads
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Art and Culture
When power leads man towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
4.2 · 22 votes · 114 reads
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Government and Politics
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.
3.3 · 60 votes · 2 reads
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Society
When written in Chinese, the word ''crisis'' is composed of two characters - one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.
3.7 · 12 votes · 41 reads
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Virtues
When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working.
3.9 · 33 votes · 133 reads
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Society
World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbour - it requires only that they live together with mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement.
3.9 · 56 votes · 12 reads
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Time
Written in Chinese, the word crisis, is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represent opportunity.
3.4 · 55 votes · 22 reads
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