Random Quotes
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.Aldous Huxley, "Themes and Variations", 1950
Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build, too.Henrik Ibsen, "The Master builder", 1892, act 3
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.Carl Jung, "Memories, Dreams, Reflections", 1962
Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.Carl Jung, "On the Psychology of the Unconciousness", 1917
Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.John F. Kennedy, Speech to UN General Assembly, Sept. 25, 1961
...probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone.John F. Kennedy, Describing a dinner for Nobel Prize winners, 1962
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.John F. Kennedy, Inaugural address, January 20, 1961
And so, my fellow americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.John F. Kennedy, Inaugural address, January 20, 1961
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.John F. Kennedy, In a speech at the White House, 1962
I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.Joyce Kilmer, "Trees" (poem), 1914