Just watched a JFK documentary on PBS

And watched him deliver, in black and white movie footage, these words from Ireland, in the early summer of 1963, the last summer of his life:

George Bernard Shaw, speaking as an Irishman, summed up an approach to life.  “Other people,” he said, “see things and say ‘why?’.   But I dream things that never were, and I say ‘why not?’”    
 
The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities.  We need men who can dream of things that never were, and ask “why not?”
 
Dig it.

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