Kennedy told baby boomers to "ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country, " they ran with it.
As with John F Kennedy's 1961 rallying cry of 'Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country', Barack Obama is likely to call on Americans to think more about their neighbours and their community.
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Just as JFK called on Americans to "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country, " Mr. Bush must now urge our citizens to do something specific for their country - and its future safety and economic well-being: Help retool the U.S. automotive fleet on an accelerated basis, replacing gas-guzzling vehicles with new FFVs, hybrids and plug-in hybrids.
Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country.
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It's about surrendering your allegiance to another country or another flag, and -- as President Kennedy said -- asking not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country.
They want to do all the thinking for you -- when to sleep, when to get up, when to shower, when to eat, what you do, what you can't do, who you can see, when you watch TV, when you go to bed.
Ask yourselves what you can do to hire more American workers, what you can do to support the American economy and invest in this nation.
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The party takes its inspiration from a phrase of the former American president, John F Kennedy, "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country".
When we think of those famous words -- "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for the country" -- it was followed up by thousands of people wanting to join the Peace Corps, and the Civil Rights movement was already out there.
In other words, what you can do with the PS4 hardware on a console is not the same thing as what you can do with the same, or similar, hardware in a PC.
Getting elected is what you have to do so you can do what you're good at: fixing things.
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.
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There are opportunities out there in any market environment to build wealth and if you can pair up your skills and talents with what you love to do, you can actually build wealth by having fun.
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And, added Mr Christiansen, if what you wanted to do was not there you can create a modification - or mod - that does the job, and then you can share that with other players so millions of others can do what you did.
So, do more of what you know you can do.
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What is there that you can do to stop someone else copying what you do?
And I said that if you stand with me and believe in what we can do together, if you do what civil rights groups like the National Action Network have always done, if you put your shoulder to the wheel of history, then we can move this country toward the promise of a better day.
The Wii U is about what you can do if you make one of the screens your TV, then snap off the other and let it wander around a room.
And what I said to them is the same thing I said to Graham and Reilly, which is, if they can front-load some of the analysis of what went wrong and how you would solve what has happened and what can happen, and you can do that more quickly than six months, then let me know.
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After that passes, after a couple of days, for me it was kind of a sense of wonder as you explore what you can do in zero gravity and the things that you can see out the window and just how the entire complex works together to make it happen.
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After all, the more people who know what it is that you want, and what you can do, the more who can help you achieve it.
That's when we'll see if you can do what Greenspan could not do but Paul Volcker could.
But for the next five days here is what you can do: You can talk to everybody you know.
Then again, as Teddy Roosevelt was fond of saying, you have to do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
"You can use the seed, you can plant it, but what you can't do is use its progeny unless you are licensed to, because its progeny is a new item, " she said.
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