Too often we honor swagger and bluster and the wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others.
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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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A life without criticism is not worth living.
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While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.
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Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.
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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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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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What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.
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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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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
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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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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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The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.
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Victims of the violence are black and white, rich and poor, young and old, famous and unknown. They are most important of all, human beings whom other human beings loved and needed.
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