"The effort to improve the conditions of..." - Quote by John F Kennedy
The effort to improve the conditions of man, however, is not a task for the few. It is the task of all nations-acting alone, acting in groups, acting in the United Nations, for plague and pestilence, plunder and pollution, the hazards of nature and the hunger of children are the foes of every nation. The earth, the sea and the air are the concern of every nation. And science, technology and education can be the ally of every nation.
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“World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor - it requires only that they live together with mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement.”
“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.”
“There is, of course, a legitimate argument for some limitation upon immigration. We no longer need settlers for virgin lands, and our economy is expanding more slowly than in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.”
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“You must get your living by loving. But as it is said of the merchants that ninety-seven in a hundred fail, so the life of men generally, tried by this standard, is a failure, and bankruptcy may be surely prophesied.”
“Men exist for the sake of one another.”
“What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.”
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“When we develop a right attitude of compassion and gratitude, we take a giant step towards solving our personal and international problems”
“War and hunger and ignorance and despair know no religious barriers.”
“We must recognize that the suffering of one person or one nation is the suffering of humanity.”