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 From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.  Politics is a blood sport. No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher. If cold December gave you birth, The month of snow and ice and mirth, Place on your hand a turquoise blue, Success will bless what'er you do. We criticize and separate ourselves from the process. We've got to jump right in there with both feet. An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less. B.I.B.L.E. = Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth. Acting was a way out at first. A way out of not knowing what to do, a way of focusing ambitions. And the ambition wasn't for fame. The ambition was to do an interesting job. Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage - and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world. Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1,000 days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin. Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need - not as a call to battle, though embattled we are - but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, "rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation"- a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease and war itself. 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. Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. - Proverbs I often marvel how it is that though each man loves himself beyond all else, he should yet value his own opinion of himself less than that of others. To the being of fully alive, the future is not ominous but a promise; it surrounds the present like a halo. What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us! Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job. - Bible True religion ... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others. Acting was a way out at first. A way out of not knowing what to do, a way of focusing ambitions. And the ambition wasn't for fame. The ambition was to do an interesting job. When I look at the kids training today ... I can tell which ones are going to do well. It's not necessarily the ones who have the most natural talent or who fall the least. Sometimes it's the kids who fall the most, and keep pulling themselves up and trying again. You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time than the peril of being judged not to have lived at all. Nothing of worthy or weight can be achieved with half a mind, with a faint heart, and with a lame endeavor. Happy the man who knows his duties! 
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