Like John Kennedy in 1960, Obama combines youth, vigor, and good looks with the promise of political change. Like Kennedy, he grew up in unusual circumstances that distance him from ordinary American life.


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Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
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He caught the eye of Bobby Kennedy.
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That's the precedent from Justice Kennedy.
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We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising.
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There is always a solution to any problem.
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I like to prowl ordinary places
and taste the people-
from a distance.
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Ray really looks like a stroll in the park. He looks like he could do it the rest of his life.
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This is our first time out. This is much more like Kitty Hawk than Kennedy.
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That great Cathedral space which was childhood.
VIRGINIA WOOLF
The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.
VIRGINIA WOOLF
Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of an...
VIRGINIA WOOLF
Therefore if you insist upon fighting to protect me, or
VIRGINIA WOOLF
Our brave soldiers and support personnel are engaged in a battle as important as any the United Stat...
VIRGINIA FOXX
Fly high... Where the only chill that cuts through you is the wind. Where your heart pounds from exh...
VIRGINIA ALISON
When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.
VIRGINIA WOOLF
We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even t...
VIRGINIA WOOLF
Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human...
VIRGINIA WOOLF
The only advice, indeed, that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to fol...
VIRGINIA WOOLF
If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about e...
VIRGINIA WOOLF
A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in t...
VIRGINIA WOOLF
One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than whe...
VIRGINIA WOOLF
The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.
VIRGINIA WOOLF
Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.
VIRGINIA WOOLF
It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with...
VIRGINIA WOOLF
To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
VIRGINIA WOOLF
Henry James seems most entirely in his element, doing that is to say what everything favors his doin...
VIRGINIA WOOLF
No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
VIRGINIA WOOLF
As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.
VIRGINIA WOOLF
When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.
VIRGINIA WOOLF
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
VIRGINIA WOOLF
I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It exp...
VIRGINIA WOOLF
Books are the mirrors of the soul.
VIRGINIA WOOLF
I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, re...
VIRGINIA WOOLF
To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.
VIRGINIA WOOLF
Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the...
VIRGINIA WOOLF
Orlando naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel himself for ever and ever and ever ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF
Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I must push my foot stealthily lest I should fall off the...
VIRGINIA WOOLF
Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.
VIRGINIA WOOLF
Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
VIRGINIA WOOLF
The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
VIRGINIA WOOLF
Yet Byron never made tea as you do, who fill the pot so that when you put the lid on the tea spills ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF
Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I'm never not thinking of you.
VIRGINIA WOOLF
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
VIRGINIA WOOLF
Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of...
VIRGINIA WOOLF
A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her c...
VIRGINIA WOOLF
The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as s...
VIRGINIA WOOLF
But it is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority th...
VIRGINIA WOOLF
The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only...
VIRGINIA WOOLF
Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.
VIRGINIA WOOLF
There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intell...
VIRGINIA WOOLF
I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and down among these men and w...
VIRGINIA WOOLF
I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure.
VIRGINIA WOOLF
Thus when I come to shape here at this table between my hands the story of my life and set it before...
VIRGINIA WOOLF