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It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.

Robert Kennedy

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 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
Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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Hope One Liner
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
You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.
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Greatness Happiness Yourself
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
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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Diversity Freedom Heritage Inspirational Man Religious Tolerance
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.
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Criminal Deserve Kind Society
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
Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
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Confusion Direction Religion Slave
This much is clear: violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness from our soul.
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Breed Cleaning Ourselves Sick Society Soul Violence
Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.
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Fear Journey Path People Truth Walk
People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.
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Attitude Destroy Himself Myself Opinion People Talk
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
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Achievement Dare Failure Greatness Inspirational
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
If you never quit, youll never fail.
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Failure Fall Quit Yourself
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
All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don’t. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.
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Challenge Difficult Live Opportunity Time World
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
I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are people in distress.
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Believe Myself People Poverty
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
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 purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
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Better Contribution Life Purpose Way
The future does not belong to those who are content with today Rather, it will belong to those who can blend vision, reason, and courage in a personal commitment.
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Blend Commitment Courage Future Personal Reason Satisfaction Vision
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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Accomplishment Assassination Violence
We know that if one man’s rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.
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Dangerous Decline Justice Man Right

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