The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
JOHN F. KENNEDYThis country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.
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There can be no progress if people have no faith in tomorrow.
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There are three things in life which are real: God, human folly and laughter. Since the first two are beyond our comprehension, we must do what we can with the third.
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The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.
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Sincerity is always subject to proof.
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Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
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The state is the servant of the citizen, and not his master.
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A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
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The rising tide lifts all the boats.
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Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one’s own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
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A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
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There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.
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Each success brings with it the potential of failure and each failure brings with it the potential of success.
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Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.
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To those whom much is given, much is expected.
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Persons are judged to be great because of the positive qualities they possess, not because of the absence of faults.
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Not everyone has equal abilities, but everyone should have equal opportunity for education.
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Democracy is never a final achievement. It is a call to an untiring effort.
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One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.
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Don’t pray for an easy life, pray to be a stronger man.
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The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use; of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.
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Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
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The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of this planet.
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Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
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Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
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Our task is not to fix blame for the past, but to fix the course for the future.
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