We need men who can dream of things that never were.

—John F. Kennedy

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), also known as JFK, was the 35th president of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented Massachusetts in both houses of the U.S. Congress before his presidency. Kennedy...

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So, let us not be blind to our differences—but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved.

—John F. Kennedy

If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

—John F. Kennedy

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

—John F. Kennedy

The stories of past courage can define that ingredient-they can teach, they can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul.

—John F. Kennedy

I look foreword to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.

—John F. Kennedy

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Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them.

They say dreams are the windows of the soul—take a peek and you can see the inner workings, the nuts and bolts.

—Henry Bromel

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.

—Germaine Greer

You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?

—George Bernard Shaw

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

—Friedrich von Schiller

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