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    “Ignatius, was you wearing that cap when you spoke to the insurance man?”
    “Of course I was. That office was improperly heated. I don’t know how the employees of that company manage to stay alive exposing themselves to that chill day after day. And then there are those fluorescent tubes baking their brains out and blinding them. I did not like the office at all. I tried to explain the inadequacies of the place to the personnel manager, but he seemed rather uninterested. He was ultimately very hostile.” Ignatius let out a monstrous belch. “However, I told you that it would be like this. I am an anachronism. People realize this and resent it.”
    “Lord, babe, you gotta look up.”
    “Look up?” Ignatius repeated savagely. “Who has been sowing that unnatural garbage into your mind?”
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Dante once said that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral cris...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what i...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Lobbyists are in many cases expert technicians and capable of explaining complex and difficult subje...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded, and some me...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all w...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for youask what you can do for your co...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Before my term has ended, we shall have to test anew whether a nation organized and governed such as...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go fo...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
For if Freedom and Communism were to compete for mans allegiance in a world at peace, I would look t...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolutewhere no Catholic prelat...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
We in this country, in this generation, areby destiny rather than choicethe watchmen on the walls of...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
To those peoples in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass mi...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Is this Nation stating it cannot afford to spend an additional $600 million to help the developing n...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
All my life Ive known better than to depend on the experts. How could I have been so stupid, to let ...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Never before has man had such capacity to control his own environment, to end thirst and hunger, to ...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Now the trumpet summons us againnot as a call to bear arms, though arms we neednot as a call to batt...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
We cannot expect that everyone, to use the phrase of a decade ago, will talk sense to the American p...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
I ask that you offer to the political arena, and to the critical problems of our society which are d...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage ...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
This increase in the life span and in the number of our senior citizens presents this Nation with in...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
This Nation was founded by men of many nations and backgrounds. It was founded on the principle that...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burde...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters-one represents danger, and ...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world -- or the ...
JOHN F. KENNEDY
It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
JOHN F. KENNEDY
Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint -- Republican or Democratic,...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad a...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government -- he promised Dad he'd go straight.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie--diliberate, contrived, and dishonest--but th...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world - or to ma...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it re...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, me...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some m...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Life is unfair.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have th...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks an...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. Our requirements for worl...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us t...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds: a Harvard education and a Yale degree.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, t...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, t...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myt...
JOHN F. KENNEDY
The day before my inauguration President Eisenhower told me, You'll find that no easy problems ever ...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicia...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
As far as the job of President goes, its rewarding and I've given before this group the definition o...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.
JOHN F. KENNEDY
The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; th...
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
People have not been horrified by war to a sufficient extent... War will exist until that distant da...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what i...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
There is a terrific disadvantage in not having the abrasive quality of the press applied to you dail...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
We prefer world law, in the age of self-determination, to world war in the age of mass extermination...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Written in Chinese, the word crisis, is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the ot...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shinning.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
We hold the view that the people make the best judgment in the long run.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
But peace does not rest in the charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of all ...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barri...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor -- it requires o...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
... ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending fre...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burde...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For ...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY