Fear plays an interesting role in our lives. How dare we let it motivate us? How dare we let it into our decision making; into our livelihoods; into our relationships? It's funny isn't it? We take a day a year to dress up, in costume and celebrate fear.

—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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In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes.

—John F. Kennedy

Now the trumpet summons us again—not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battle, though embattled we are—but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, "rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation"—a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself.

—John F. Kennedy

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

—John F. Kennedy

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

—John F. Kennedy

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

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There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

—George Sewell

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

—George Carlin

I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

—Francis Quarles

Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

—Frances Moore Lappe

In life we don't get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

—Ferdinand Foch

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