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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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Robert Kennedy
Age: 42 †
Born: 1925
Born: November 20
Died: 1968
Died: June 6
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Brookline
Massachusetts
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I now know how Tojo felt when he was planning Pearl Harbor.
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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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It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.
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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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Few will have the greatness to bend history itself but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are people in distress.
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The Gross National Product measures everything except that which makes life worthwhile.
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Too often we honor swagger and bluster and the wielders of force too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others.
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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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Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.
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GDP does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play
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Just because we cannot see clearly the end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey. On the contrary, great change dominates the world, and unless we move with change we will become its victims.
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