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.
ROBERT KENNEDYOnly those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
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What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr’s cause has ever been stilled by an assassin’s bullet.
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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.
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It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.
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You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.
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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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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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It is immoral to see evil and not act on it.
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Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
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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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Ultimately, America’s answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
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In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfilment of the best qualities of your own spirit.
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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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The essential humanity of men can be protected and preserved only where government must answer, not just to the wealthy, not just to those of a particular religion, or a particular race, but to all its people.
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Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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