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[Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960]


John F. Kennedy

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People are not an interruption of our business. People are our business.
A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.
It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground.
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
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The intelligence is proved not by ease of learning, but by understanding what we learn.
Communication is something so simple and difficult that we can never put it in simple words.
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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
In everyone's heart stirs a great homesickness.
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Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience.
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Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.
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Let your friends be the friends of your deliberate choice.
The man who has strong opinions and always says what he thinks is courageous - and friendless.
Friendship is love with understanding.
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Your life can't go according to plan if you have no plan.
Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment.
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If you would attain greatness, think no little thoughts.
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Good habits are formed; bad habits we fall into.
If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price.
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.
Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances.
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
Hatred is a boomerang which is sure to hit you harder than the one at whom you throw it.
Hate pollutes the mind.
If we miraculously became the people we hate, how lovable we would find ourselves.
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Honesty is a question of right or wrong, not a matter of policy.
It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.
It is almost impossible to smile on the outside without feeling better on the inside.
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Too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words.
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No punishment of the unrighteous has ever been too severe in the eyes of the righteous.
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Where ambition ends happiness begins.
The best answer to answer to anger is silence.
The size of a man is measured by the size of the thing that makes him angry.
A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
People who know the least always argue the most.
If you look for the positive things in life; you will find them.
What we are doing at the moment is more that just one thing added to the rest; it is a memoir.
Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes
The human mind must believe in something, so why not let it believe what it does believe.
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JOHN F. KENNEDY
We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but b...
JOHN F. KENNEDY
If by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas w...
JOHN F. KENNEDY
All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop those ...
JOHN F. KENNEDY
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

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JOHN F. KENNEDY
We've always been used to the French doing things differently, and in most cases it's charming. But ...
JOHN F. KENNEDY
We're winning the war but we haven't won the war yet. I think whoever takes over this job in 20 year...
JOHN F. KENNEDY
Those who have got into the habit of consuming music for free are very hard to shift. And frankly it...
JOHN F. KENNEDY
I married Joyce Sours, who has always understood my love for music and my need to perform. I think t...
JOHN F. KENNEDY
I have thanked him many times for telling me the way it was.
JOHN F. KENNEDY