John F. Kennedy Quotes
There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.
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I have an issue with rage. I'm going to work that out, long term.
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Lately, I've been doing a lot of tuning in and impatiently tuning out. As a longtime fan of talk radio, I don't think this bodes well for the long-term broad appeal of the medium.
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Humanity will live as long as there are humans.
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You know, I really miss sex scandals. They're generally colorful. They almost never mean anything over the long run. And while they're going on, the people who actually keep the government running are let alone to go about their business. Good old sex scandals.
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Emotions come first, and in the most direct sense: you first have an emotion and then have a feeling. But also first in the history of the human race, for the ability to have emotions long preceded the ability to have feelings.
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You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.
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You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.
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There have been periods of my career that I haven't worked for a really long time, like seven or eight months.
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Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.
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As long as they are working, they should be legalized. I admire so much each and every migrant. They are the most loyal workers in the U.S. economy. They build the homes of those who are attacking them.
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A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead.
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It's one of the few regrets of my presidency - that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better. There's no doubt a president with the gifts of Lincoln or Roosevelt might have better bridged the divide, and I guarantee I'll keep trying to be better so long as I hold this office.
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In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.
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I've gone out on limbs, flung far, and Forrest-Gumped my way into the center of the action.
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When I lived in London, I worked three jobs and had such long work days.
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I think Paris smells not just sweet but melancholy and curious, sometimes sad but always enticing and seductive. She's a city for the all senses, for artists and writers and musicians and dreamers, for fantasies, for long walks and wine and lovers and, yes, for mysteries.
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As long as there is no proselytism... we must facilitate the partnership between parents and schools.
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If it can be profitable to be green, that's just smart business.
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Medical care is one of the only sectors in which Americans are asked to make significant, long-term decisions without knowing the exact price of those decisions up front. Americans deserve to make informed decisions about their medical options.
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Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.
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I'm not a 'long writer' and have never wanted to write a novel or even a novella. Poetry, like flash fiction, provides a readily accessible canvas to play with. Whether to express an emotion or share a vignette, these forms are often interchangeable.
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Nothing is so dangerous for our security as large groups of desperate people.
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Despite of it all, the Negro remains … cool, strong, imperturbable, and cheerful.
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There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.
