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Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
Robert Kennedy
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Robert Kennedy
Age: 42 †
Born: 1925
Born: November 20
Died: 1968
Died: June 6
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The future is not a gift: it is an achievement. Every generation helps make its own future. This is the essential challenge of the present
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If you never quit, youll never fail.
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I run because I am convinced that this country is on a perilous course and I have such strong feelings about what must be done.
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