"Never before has man had such a great capacity to control his own environment, to end hunger, poverty and disease, to banish illiteracy and human misery. We have the power to make the best generation of mankind in the history of the world."

-- John F. Kennedy

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“So be it. I'll wear my iron and hold my tongue. A man who won't listen can't hear.”
“A day in Afghanistan is like a week at home.”
“As soon as you begin to say We have always done things this way -- perhaps that might be a better way, conscious law-making is beginning. As soon as you begin to say We do things this way -- they do things that way -- what is to be done about it? men are beginning to feel towards justice, that resides between the endless jar of right and wrong.”

Source : Helen Maud Cam (1956). “Law as it Looks to a Historian. (1. Publ.)”
“Despite the vision and farseeing wisdom of our wartime heads of state, the physicists have felt the peculiarly intimate responsibility for suggesting, for supporting, and in the end, in large measure, for achieving the realization of atomic weapons. Nor can we forget that these weapons as they were in fact used dramatized so mercilessly the inhumanity and evil of modern war. In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.”
“Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It's the magic sauce.”
“Failure? Scared to death of it.”

Source : "America's Idol rich" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. June 25, 2007.
“Ask yourself whether you are happy', observed the philosopher John Stuart Mill, 'and you cease to be so.' At best, it would appear, happiness can only be glimpsed out of the corner of an eye, not stared at directly.”
“What is inconceivable about the universe is that it is at all conceivable.”

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