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What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.

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Robert Kennedy
Age: 42 †
Born: 1925
Born: November 20
Died: 1968
Died: June 6
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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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I dream of things that are not and ask why not.
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Every dictatorship has ultimately strangled in the web of repression it wove for its people, making mistakes that could not be corrected because criticism was prohibited.
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I thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he's been through, never worried about it I thought it would be me.
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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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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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Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.
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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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If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. The two are inseparable partners in the great adventure of humanity.
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We know that if one man's rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.
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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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You knew that what is given or granted can be taken away, that what is begged can be refused but that what is earned is kept.
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The Gross National Product measures everything except that which makes life worthwhile.
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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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We can master change not though force or fear, but only though the free work of an understanding mind, though an openness to new knowledge and fresh outlooks, which can only strengthen the most fragile and most powerful of human gifts: the gift of reason.
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A life without criticism is not worth living.
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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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