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Wishing it, predicting it, even asking for it, will not make it so.
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John F. Kennedy
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gutenberg.orgWishing it, predicting it, even asking for it, will not make it so.
This quote underscores the importance of action over mere wishes or predictions in achieving goals.
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Today we still welcome those winds of change--and we have every reason to believe that our tide is running strong.
The modern globe is too small, its weapons are too destructive, and its disorders are too contagious to permit any other kind of victory.
Tomorrow it can form the framework for a world of law--a world in which no nation dictates the destiny of another, and in which the vast resources now devoted to destructive means will serve constructive ends.
But now the winds of change appear to be blowing more strongly than ever, in the world of communism as well as our own.