“Στα Κινέζικα η λέξη κρίση αποτελείται από δύο χαρακτήρες. Ο ένας εκπροσωπεί την έννοια του κινδύνου και ο άλλος την έννοια της ευκαιρίας.” JFK

 Dionysios Simopoulos  Αστροφυσικός· 

“Στα Κινέζικα η λέξη κρίση αποτελείται από δύο χαρακτήρες. Ο ένας εκπροσωπεί την έννοια του κινδύνου και ο άλλος την έννοια της ευκαιρίας.” JFK

Πριν από 54 χρόνια ο τότε πρόεδρος των ΗΠΑ John F. Kennedy δολοφονήθηκε στο Dallas του Texas. Ήταν ο άνθρωπος του οποίου τα λόγια έχουν καθοδηγήσει πολλές φορές την πορεία της ζωής μου. [Με τις ευχαριστίες μου στην Connie Caridi για την υπενθύμιση]

“I'm an idealist without illusions.”

“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.”

“When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.”

“Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.”
“Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.”
“Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.”

“Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.”

“We stand today on the edge of a new frontier a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils - a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.”

“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 - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.”