Sweet Speeches

This quest for recognition, this desire for attention, this desire for distinction is the basic impulse, the basic drive of human life, this drum major instinct.

- Martin Luther King Jr., The King Center
February 4, 1968

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Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission — to make the world more open and connected.

- Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook
February 2, 2012

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Yea, because everything is amazing right now and nobody’s happy.

- Louis C.K., Conan O'brien
February 24, 2009

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We’re working on some really cool stuff, but some of it has to be tempered a little bit because you do have these users that don’t want a car with six wheels. They like the car with four wheels. They don’t want to drive with a joystick. They like the steering wheel.

- Steve Jobs,
July 8, 2007

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It's ironic that the ones who would have us assume blame for this economic mess are the ones who created it.

- Ronald Reagan, The Reagan Foundation
November 10, 1981

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In celebration of Martin Luther King's Birthday, explore this mosaic made 'In His Own Words."

- Featured , Sweet Speeches
January 12, 2012

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Hear me, my chiefs; my heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.

- Chief Joseph, The Earth Shall Weep: A History of Native America
October 5, 1877

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I did not choose to take up the pen, the brush, the camera. I chose this instrument – I chose the gun.

- Peter van Uhm, TEDx
November 25, 2011

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We go into space because whatever mankind must undertake, free men must fully share.

- John F. Kennedy, NARA
May 25, 1961

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What I have recommended to you I am myself going to do. After a few moons are passed I shall leave the great town and retire to my farm.

- George Washington, NARA
August 29, 1796

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