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    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy
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    Mark Twain
    “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: misattributed-mark-twain, truth
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    Mark Twain
    “If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: misattributed-mark-twain, newspapers
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    Mark Twain
    “The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.”
    ― Mark Twain
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    Mark Twain
    “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: courage
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    Mark Twain
    “I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor
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    Mark Twain
    “All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. ”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor, success
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    Mark Twain
    “The secret to getting ahead is getting started.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: starting, working
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    Mark Twain
    “Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”
    ― Mark Twain
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    Mark Twain
    “Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.”
    ― Mark Twain
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    Mark Twain
    “A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.”
    ― Mark Twain
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
    ― Winston Churchill
    tags: attributed-no-source, convictions, criticism
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: bravery, courage, failure, inspirational, success
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    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.”
    ― John F. Kennedy
    tags: forgiveness, vigilance
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    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

    [Quoting Reverend Phillips Brooks, during Remarks at Presidential Prayer Breakfast, February 7 1963]”
    ― John F. Kennedy
    tags: inspirational, prayer, strength
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    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.”
    ― John F. Kennedy
    tags: difference
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    John Fitzgerald 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 Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.”
    ― John F. Kennedy
    tags: gratitude, sincerity
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    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.”
    ― John F. Kennedy
    tags: conformity, freedom, growth, individuality
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    Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. [Remarks on the first
    “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

    [Remarks on the first anniversary of the Alliance for Progress, 13 March 1962]”
    ― John F. Kennedy
    tags: peacefulness, political-rights, protest, revolution, violence
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    John Fitzgerald 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 Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.”
    ― John F. Kennedy
    tags: education, freedom, liberty, wisdom
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    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “Without debate, without criticism no administration and no country can succeed and no republic can survive.”
    ― John F. Kennedy
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    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “A man does what he must — in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers, and pressures — and that is the basis of all human morality.”
    ― John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage
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    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly. ”
    ― john f kennedy
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    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “If not us, who? If not now, when?”
    ― John F. Kennedy
    tags: if-not-us, if-now-now, john-f-kennedy
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    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all morality.”
    ― John F. Kennedy
    tags: inspirational, life
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    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “A child miseducated is a child lost.”
    ― John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “Those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside”
    ― John F. Kennedy
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