(03-23-2020, 09:29 PM)cardcrimson Wrote:nope, you bet wrong. I don't see the similarity at all (and from the post immediately above, it seems I'm not the only one). And I aced those SAT questions about things that are similar and those that are not! But I'm happy to learn if you can explain plainly enough for me to understand!(03-23-2020, 08:43 PM)oldalum Wrote:Oldalum, I bet you scoffed at this, too:(03-23-2020, 05:04 PM)cardcrimson Wrote: “Our country wasn’t built to be shut down,” Trump continued. “This is not a country that was built for this.” "Which countries were? This is a useless statement. Just says the truism that being shut down is not good.
"We choose to go to the Moon! We choose to go to the Moon...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 we intend to win, and the others, too."
Perhaps not as eloquent, but the message is the same.
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However, Kennedy's words seem fitting for the moment, with our country facing the societal challenge of fighting the virus and its personal and economic harms, except that this challenge is not one of choice and can't be postponed.
