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The Gross National Product measures everything except that which makes life worthwhile.
Robert Kennedy
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Robert Kennedy
Age: 42 †
Born: 1925
Born: November 20
Died: 1968
Died: June 6
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Massachusetts
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RFK
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Now I can go back to being ruthless again.
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The intolerant man will not rely on persuasion, or on the worth of the idea. He would deny to others the very freedom of opinion or of dissent which he so stridently demands for himself. He cannot trust democracy.
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When you teach a man to hate and fear his brother, when you teach that he is a lesser man because of his color or his beliefs or the policies he pursues, when you teach that those who differ from you threaten your freedom or your job or your family, then you also learn to confront others not as fellow citizens but as enemies...
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Our future may lie beyond our vision, but it is not completely beyond our control. It is the shaping impulse of America that neither fate nor nature nor the irresistible tides of history, but the work of our own hands, matched to reason and principle.
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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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Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
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Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.
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Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
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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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