"Too often in the past, we have thought……" — John F. Kennedy
"Too often in the past, we have thought of the artist as an idler and dilettante and of the lover of arts as somehow sissy and effete. We have done both an injustice. The life of the artist is, in relation to his work, stern and lonely. He has labored hard, often amid deprivation, to perfect his skill. He has turned aside from quick success in order to strip his vision of everything secondary or cheapening. His working life is marked by intense application and intense discipline."
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John F. Kennedy
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622 Quotes by John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy has 622 quotes on this site.
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We do not want an official state church. If ninety-nine percent of the population were Catholics, I would still be…
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When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working.
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Everywhere immigrants have enriched and strengthened the fabric of American life.
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There is, of course, a legitimate argument for some limitation upon immigration. We no longer need settlers for virgin lands,…
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I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end... where every man has the same right to attend…
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The science of weapons and war has made us all one world and one human race with one common destiny.
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We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be…
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Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard…
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We shall be judged more by what we do at home than what we preach abroad.
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Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights…
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My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
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I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle…
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It is not till it is discovered that high individual incomes will not purchase the mass of mankind immunity from…
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God's best gift to man.
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It may be observed, that provinces amid the vicissitudes to which they are subject, pass from order into confusion, and…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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The mind is very wild. The human experience is full of unpredictability and paradox, joys and sorrows, successes and failures.…
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How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence.
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My garden does not whet the appetite; it satisfies it. It does not provoke thirst through heedless indulgence, but slakes…
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Old photograph: amid the set poses of her family, a young girl smiles and raises her hand a little.
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Science arises from the discovery of Identity amid Diversity.
— William Stanley Jevons
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From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
— Lucretius
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