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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.

Robert Kennedy

Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America’s water pollution.
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Account Industry Pollution Water
He tells so many lies that he convinces himself after a while that he’s telling the truth. He just doesn’t recognize truth or falsehood.
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Fake Lying Recognition Truth
Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
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Change Enemy Motivation Progress Word
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
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
The natural state of a human being is dignity.
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Dignity Human Natural State
Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
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Enemy Forgiveness Name
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.
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Criminal Deserve Kind Society
There are those that 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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Dreams Myself Question Sight
I dream of things that are not and ask why not.
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Dreams Fantasy Myself Question
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
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
Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
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Confusion Direction Religion Slave
What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.
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Alone Country Ourselves World
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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Dedication Life Man Savage Tame World Writing
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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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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