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Privilege is here, and with privilege goes responsibility.
John F. Kennedy
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John F. Kennedy
Age: 46 †
Born: 1917
Born: May 29
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
35Th U.S. President
Journalist
Military Officer
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Brookline
Massachusetts
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Jack Kennedy
President Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
J. F. Kennedy
JFK
John Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Jack Kennedy
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Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.
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Man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.
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I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end... where every man has the same right to attend or not attend the church of his choice.
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Failure has no friends.
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Aggressive conduct, if allowed to go unchecked and unchallenged, ultimately leads to war.
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I will splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the winds.
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But however close we sometimes seem to that dark and final abyss, let no man of peace and freedom despair. For he does not stand alone.
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Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us.
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I am flatly opposed to appointment of an ambassador to the Vatican. Whatever advantages it might have in Rome - and I'm not convinced of these - they would be more than offset by the divisive effect at home.
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No government or social system is so evil that its people must be considered as lacking in virtue.
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To sound the alarm is not to panic but to seek action from an aroused public.
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And so it is to the printing press--to the recorder of mans deeds, the keeper of his conscience, the courier of his news-- that we look for strength and assistance, confident that with your help man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.
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American history is not something dead and over. It is always alive,always growing, always unfinished.
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Since the time of the ancient Greeks, we have always felt that there was a close relationship between a strong, vital mind and physical fitness.
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Ask not that the journey be easy ask instead that it be worth it.
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The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the nation's greatness. But the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable for they determine whether we use power or power uses us.
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The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
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