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Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.

Robert Kennedy

The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Better Contribution Life Purpose Way
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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Community Criminal Deserve Force Kind Society
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
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
The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Goal Human Liberty Society Value
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
Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Comfortable Despair Force History Punishment
In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfilment of the best qualities of your own spirit.
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Fulfillment Future Hands Lying Spirit World Yourself
Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
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Change Enemy Motivation Progress Word
If you never quit, youll never fail.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Failure Fall Quit Yourself
Men and women with freed minds may often be mistaken, but they are seldom fooled. They may be influenced, but they cannot be intimidated. They may be perplexed, but they will never be lost.
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Fools Freedom Lost Man Mindset Mistake Woman
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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Demand Democracy Freedom Himself Man Opinion Persuade Tolerance Trust
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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Activity Body Commitment Enough Future Human See Shape Task Understand Willing
Together, we can make ourselves a nation that spends more on books than on bombs, more on hospitals than the terrible tools of war, more on decent houses than military aircraft.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Books Home Hospital Nation Togetherness Tools War
Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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Hope One Liner
GNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile
ROBERT KENNEDY

Compassionate Exception Life Measurement Wisdom Worth

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