The greatest enemy of truth is very often not the lie—deliberate, contrived and dishonest—but the myth—persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

US President, Cuban Missile Crisis

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Commencement Address at Yale University

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1962

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https://www.jfklibrary.org/archives/other-resources/john-f-kennedy-speeches/yale…

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