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John F. Kennedy
35th US president (1917-1963). Youngest elected president and first Catholic in office. He navigated the Cuban Missile Crisis, founded the Peace Corps, and aimed America at the Moon before being assassinated in Dallas.
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The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
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What is most personal is most universal.
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In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?
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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination.
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People and things do not upset us. Rather, we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us.
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Berlin is the testicles of the West. When I want the West to scream, I squeeze on Berlin.
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