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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Robert Kennedy

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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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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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
The natural state of a human being is dignity.
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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.
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Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America’s water pollution.
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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
We know that if one man’s rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.
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The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.
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Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
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Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
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It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.
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But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?
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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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If you never quit, youll never fail.
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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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