"In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility -- I welcome it."

Kennedy, John F. on freedom   

"Let us never negotiate out of fear but let us never fear to negotiate."

Kennedy, John F. on fear
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"Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life."

Kennedy, John F. on expectation
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"Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security."

Kennedy, John F. on exercise   

"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."

Kennedy, John F. on enemies
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"In the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding on the back of the tiger ended up inside."

Kennedy, John F. on effort
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"Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction."

Kennedy, John F. on effort
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"Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource."

Kennedy, John F. on education
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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."

Kennedy, John F. on education
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"People have not been horrified by war to a sufficient extent... War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige as the warrior does today."

Kennedy, John F. on draft   

"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."

Kennedy, John F. on freedom
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"Every American ought to have the right to be treated as he would wish to be treated, as one would wish his children to be treated. this is not the case."

Kennedy, John F. on america   

"True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope."

Kennedy, John F. on happiness
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"An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why."

Faulkner, William on art
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"I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail."

Faulkner, William on optimism
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"Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly is having to accept it."

Faulkner, William on gratitude   

"All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible."

Faulkner, William on failure
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"Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other."

Faulkner, William on facts
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"The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it."

Faulkner, William on dream
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"It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war."

Kennedy, John F. on peace
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"The human mind is our fundamental resource."

Kennedy, John F. on mind   

"We dare not tempt them with weakness. For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed."

Kennedy, John F. on arms race   

"We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it."

Kennedy, John F. on life   

"It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won."

Kennedy, John F. on leadership
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"Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings."

Kennedy, John F. on destiny
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"In law, nothing is certain but the expense."

Butler, Samuel on law and lawyers
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"Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]"

Bible on evil
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"Envy and wrath shorten the life. [Ecclesiasticus]"

Bible on envy
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"There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor. [Ecclesiastes 2:24]"

Bible on joy
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"Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you. [Matthew]"

Bible on enemies
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"The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. [Ecclesiastes 9:11]"

Bible on effort
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"Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart from it. [Proverbs 22:6]"

Bible on education
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"Who so regardeth dreams is like him that catcheth at a shadow, and followeth after the wind. [Ecclesiasticus 34:2]"

Bible on dream   

"The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame. [Proverbs 29:15]"

Bible on discipline   

"Ask for the old paths, where the way is good, and walk in it."

Bible on direction
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"For such is God our God, forever and ever. He will guide us until death. [Psalm 48:14]"

Bible on direction   

"I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you should go. I will counsel you with my eye upon you. [Psalm 25:12]"

Bible on direction
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"No evil shall happen to the just."

Bible on evil   

"Whoever rewards evil for good, evil will not depart from their house."

Bible on evil
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"Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1]"

Bible on faith
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