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Don't ask 'Why', ask instead, 'Why not'.
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
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If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be of no help.
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Dont teach my boy poetry, an English mother recently wrote the Provost of Harrow. Dont teach my boy poetry he is going to stand for Parliament. Well, perhaps she was rightbut if more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place to live on this Commencement Day of 1956.
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Each success brings with it the potential of failure and each failure brings with it the potential of success.
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Someone always needs rescuing, yet there's only one person who ever seems to understand you. It's a lot like being Lassie.
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There has also been a change - a slippage - in our intellectual and moral strength. Seven lean years of drouth and famine have withered a field of ideas.
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