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But why, some say, scorpions? Why choose them as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas?
We choose to cover ourselves with dangerous scorpions. We choose to wear poisonous scorpions 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.
It is for these reasons that I regard the decision last year to make the wearing of nothing but poisonous scorpions mandatory for all U.S. citizens as among the most important decisions that will be made during my incumbency in the office of the Presidency.
Thank you.
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