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While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.

Robert Kennedy

Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
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Confusion Direction Religion Slave
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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Correct Criticism Mistake People Repression Strangle
Some men see what is, and ask ‘Why?’ I see what might be, and ask ‘Why Not?’
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Man Myself Question Sight
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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Domination Journey Light Reason Victim World
It is immoral to see evil and not act on it.
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Act Evil Immortal See
There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of the comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.
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Comfortable Existence Future History Land People Present Security Time
Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.
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Community Excellence Material Surrender Value
GNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile
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Compassionate Exception Life Measurement Wisdom Worth
The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.
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Country Criticism Deep Hands Love Patriot
All of us will ultimately be judged on the effort we have contributed to building a new world order.
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Build Contribution Effort Judgment Order World
You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.
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Greatness Happiness Yourself
Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
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Enemy Forgiveness Name
I dream of things that are not and ask why not.
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Dreams Fantasy Myself Question
While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.
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Control Freedom Government Marketing Society
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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Bend Change Generation Greatness History Small Work
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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Build Dreams Force Honor Live Ourselves Willing
I think there is an obligation on the part of all of us to stay informed and aware.
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Aware Obligation Stay Thinking
Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
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Guide Live Tools Tragedy Wisdom
Victims of the violence are black and white, rich and poor, young and old, famous and unknown. They are most important of all, human beings whom other human beings loved and needed.
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Black Human Love Need Victim Violence White
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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Change Fear Force Freedom Fresh Gift Human Master Powerful Reason Strength Work
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
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Achievement Dare Failure Greatness Inspirational
Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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Hope One Liner
Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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Hope Ideal Stand Time
Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.
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Fear Journey Path People Truth Walk
Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.
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Comfortable Despair Force History Punishment
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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Achievement Challenge Future Generation Gift Present
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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Beg Earn Grant Refusal

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