"There is a connection, hard to explain..." - Quote by John F Kennedy
There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts.
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“If someone separated the art of counting and measuring and weighing from all the other arts, what was left of each (of the others) would be, so to speak, insignificant.”
“So the well educated man can learn to sing and dance well.”
“Education is like a diamond with many facets: It includes the basic mastery of numbers and letters that give us access to the treasury of human knowledge, accumulated and refined through the ages; it includes technical and vocational training as well as instruction in science, higher mathematics, and humane letters.”
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“I never thought of achievement. I just did what came along for me to do - the thing that gave me the most pleasure.”
“How do you turn the invisible into the visible? The first step is to define your dream precisely; the only limit to what you can achieve is the extent of your ability to define with precision that which you desire.”
“My true glory is not to have won 40 battles ... Waterloo will erase the memory of so many victories, ... But ... what will live forever, is my Civil Code.”