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To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.
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Lawlessness is a self-perpetuating, ever-expanding habit.
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After the earthquake and the fire comes the still, small voice.
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It is quite hard at times to distinguish a genius from a lunatic.
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Hate smolders and eventually destroys, not the hated but the hater.
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Nobody knows anything about America who does not know its little towns.
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We all make, I think, traitors of our memories (to credit our own lies).
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Never interrupt an artist in the middle of his work! You are inflicting agony upon him.
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Spiritual truth is truth in whatever age, but the tasks of its service change as society changes.
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Disillusion comes only to the illusioned. One cannot be disillusioned of what one never put faith in.
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Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?
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The thinking of a genius does not proceed logically. It leaps with great ellipses. It pulls knowledge from God knows where.
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The most dangerous illusion from which free men suffer is the widely held idea that freedom maintains itself by the mere fact of its being.
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Children want to feel instinctively that their father is behind them as solid as a mountain, but, like a mountain, is something to look up to.
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Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.
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The United States is the only great and populous nation-state and world power whose people are not cemented by ties of blood, race or original language.
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The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness; aggressiveness engenders hostility; hostility engenders fear — a disastrous circle.
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I am inclined to think that the flowers we most love are those we knew when we were very young, when our senses were most acute to color and to smell, and our natures most lyrical.
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Children are little anarchists, possessed, however, of a powerful herd instinct, leading them to demand oppressive conformity from others, and especially conformity to their own primitive urges.
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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert F. Kennedy
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Born:
July 9, 1893
Died:
January 30, 1961
(aged 67)
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