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    John F. Kennedy
    “The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.”
    ― John F. Kennedy
    tags: chinese, crisis, danger, inspirational, opportunity
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
    tags: death-life-convictions
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.”
    ― Martin Luther King, Jr.
    tags: hope, inspirational
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: injustice
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: death, inspirational
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    John F. Kennedy
    “Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.”
    ― John F. Kennedy
    tags: forgiveness, vigilance
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    John F. Kennedy
    “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.”
    ― John F. Kennedy
    tags: civic-duty, civic-responsibility, inaugural-address, politics
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    John F. Kennedy
    “Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.

    [News conference, April 21 1961]”
    ― John F. Kennedy
    tags: defeat, leadership, responsibility, victory
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    John F. Kennedy
    “Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

    [Inaugural Address, January 20 1961]”
    ― John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    tags: compromise, inspirational, negotiation
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    John F. Kennedy
    “A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.”
    ― John F. Kennedy
    tags: endurance, ideas, inspirational
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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 because they are hard.

    [Address at Rice University, September 12 1962]”
    ― John F. Kennedy
    tags: aspiration, challenge, kennedy, moon, space-race, space-travel, trial
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    Walter Payton
    “Never Die Easy”
    ― Walter Payton, Never Die Easy: The Autobiography of Walter Payton
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    Alan Paton
    “Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving. ”
    ― Alan Paton
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    Alan Paton
    “The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.”
    ― Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country
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    Alan Paton
    “But there is only one thing that has power completely, and this is love. Because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.”
    ― Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: paraphrased, strength
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    Henry Kissinger
    “There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.”
    ― Henry A. Kissinger
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