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Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.

Robert Kennedy

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.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Bend Change Generation Greatness History Small Work
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
The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
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Better Contribution Life Purpose Way
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
In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfilment of the best qualities of your own spirit.
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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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All of us will ultimately be judged on the effort we have contributed to building a new world order.
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Build Contribution Effort Judgment Order World
Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
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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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Every dictatorship has ultimately strangled in the web of repression it wove for its people, making mistakes that could not be corrected because criticism was prohibited.
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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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Believe Evil Myself Poverty Quantity
While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.
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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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Just because we cannot see clearly the end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey. On the contrary, great change dominates the world, and unless we move with change we will become its victims.
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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.
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The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.
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