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" Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings. "

John F. Kennedy

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" Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction. "

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" We stand today on the edge of a new frontier - the frontier of the 1960's - a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils - a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats. "

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" Things do not happen. Things are made to happen. "

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" I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose. "

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" Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others. "

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" Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone. "

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" Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity. "

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" Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan. "

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" We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination. "

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Self-Determination

" To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust. "

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" The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings. "

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" Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process. "

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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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" I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians. "

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" We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. "

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

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" The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy. "

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" Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can. "

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" Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future. "

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" We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work. "

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" Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom. "

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