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

Robert Kennedy · Wisdom

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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.

Change

Robert Kennedy

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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Robert Kennedy

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

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Robert Kennedy

There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?

Dreams