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If I can leave a single message with the younger generation, it is to lash yourself to the mast, like Ulysses if you must, to escape the siren calls of complacency and indifference.

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Edward Kennedy
Age: 77 †
Born: 1932
Born: February 22
Died: 2009
Died: August 25
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Dorchester
Massachusetts
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