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" A line has to be drawn somewhere between what is essential and what is peripheral. "
Somewhere
Essential
Line
" Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight. "
World
Peace
Change The World
" As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occurred, my parents would have given me my college education. As it was, I had to scrabble for it. "
Good
Depression
Me
" Being accused of enthusiasm is something I'll never live down. "
Live
Enthusiasm
Down
" Christian virtues unite men. Racism separates them. "
Christian
Unite
Virtues
" Does politics have to be injected into everything? "
Politics
Everything
Does
" Do the job first. Worry about the clearance later. "
Worry
About
Job
" Do we talk about the dignity of work? Do we give our students any reason for believing it is worthwhile to sacrifice for their work because such sacrifices improve the psychological and mental health of the person who makes them? "
Sacrifice
Work
Health
" He who knows all things and believes nothing is damned. "
Who
Nothing
Things
" I can remember at college, living on 30-cent meals. "
I Can
Living
Meals
" I do not think that the educational program of our schools should be determined by what the community thinks it needs. "
Community
Determined
Needs
" I don't have to run the Peace Corps. I could live without seeing my picture in the newspapers and without being interviewed. "
Run
Peace
Seeing
" I don't think the Gallup Poll technique is going to be very helpful in determining the goals of our educational system. "
Goals
System
Helpful
" If a young person has any idealism at all, it's strongest about the time he finishes college. "
Time
Young
Person
" If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society. "
Life
Best
Education
" I hate goofballs. "
Hate
" I never ride just to ride. I ride to catch a fox. I play baseball to make the team. "
Never
Fox
Baseball
" In the Peace Corps, the volunteer must be a fully developed, mature person. He must not join to run abroad or escape problems. "
Escape
Problems
Volunteer
" It is precisely our job as Catholics to speak the truth as plainly and precisely as we can. "
Speak
Truth
Our
" It is well to be prepared for life as it is, but it is better to be prepared to make life better than it is. "
Well
Than
Better
" It's the most rewarding thing to be a civil servant. "
Servant
Civil
Most
" It wouldn't kill me if I were never nominated or elected to anything. "
Anything
Me
Elected
" I want to warn anyone who sees the Peace Corps as an alternative to the draft that life may well be easier at Fort Dix or at apost in Germany than it will be with us. "
Us
Want
Draft
" Jews have suffered persecution from misguided Christians who tortured the Jews for their part in killing Christ. These Christians forgot that Christ died because of the sins of all men. "
Who
Persecution
Because
" Joe Kennedy isn't in the habit of having incompetents around. I wouldn't have lasted three months if I didn't have some ability. "
Months
Ability
Habit
" Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting. "
Just
Travel
Purpose
" My parents had always preached the virtues of hard work. But hard work is one thing; economic struggle is another. "
Struggle
Hard Work
Parents
" My parents were second cousins. That is enough to explain all of my peculiarities. "
Parents
Explain
Enough
" One of the things Mr. Kennedy taught me was that in laying out a new project, you shouldn't try to cope with every little problem. "
Project
Try
You
" Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education. "
Housing
Results
Racism
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