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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert Kennedy
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Robert Kennedy
Age: 42 †
Born: 1925
Born: November 20
Died: 1968
Died: June 6
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People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.
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But history will judge you, and as the years pass, you will ultimately judge yourself, in the extent to which you have used your gifts and talents to lighten and enrich the lives of your fellow men. In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfillment of the best qualities of your own spirit.
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Some men see what is, and ask 'Why?' I see what might be, and ask 'Why Not?'
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There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?
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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.
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Each nation has different obstacles and different goals, shaped by the vagaries of history and of experience. Yet as I talk to young people around the world I am impressed not by the diversity but by the closeness of their goals, their desires and their concerns and their hope for the future.
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Men without hope, resigned to despair and oppression, do not make revolutions. It is when expectation replaces submission, when despair is touched with the awareness of possibility, that the forces of human desire and the passion for justice are unloosed.
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I love this city. If I am elected, I'll move the White House to San Francisco. Everybody's so friendly.
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The gross national product includes air pollution and advertising for cigarettes, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our doors, and jails for the people who break them ... It does not allow for the health of our families, the quality of thier education, or the joy of their play.
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What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet...
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Nations around the world look to us for the leadership not merely by strength of arms but by strength of our convictions.
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A life without criticism is not worth living.
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It will help erase the idea that politics is a second-rate profession and a dirty business.
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I now know how Tojo felt when he was planning Pearl Harbor.
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It is immoral to see evil and not act on it.
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