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- And so, my fellow americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Inaugural address, January 20, 1961
- If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Inaugural address, January 20, 1961
- ...probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Describing a dinner for Nobel Prize winners, 1962
- Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Speech to UN General Assembly, Sept. 25, 1961
- Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
- Carl Jung (1875 - 1961), "On the Psychology of the Unconciousness", 1917
- As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
- Carl Jung (1875 - 1961), "Memories, Dreams, Reflections", 1962
- Live all you can - it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?
- Henry James (1843 - 1916), "Ambassadors", 1903
- Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build, too.
- Henrik Ibsen (1828 - 1906), "The Master builder", 1892, act 3
- Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
- Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963), "Themes and Variations", 1950
- Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963), "Texts and Pretexts", 1932
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