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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
United States
29 May 1917 // 22 Nov 1963
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On Risk:
There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
Speech to Americans for Democratic Action (May 12, 1961)
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On Sincerity:
Civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof.
Presidential inaugural speech (January 20, 1961)
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On Time:
We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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