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I don't think young people need to see the face of the deceased.
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The writer's job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.
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To be upright and to have an imagination: that is enough to be a very good young man.
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The ideal teacher student relationship exists when the student is better than the teacher.
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If any suffering was fruitless it was the agony of a hangover; what he suffered now could not expiate suffering of any other kind.
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The fundamental style of my writing has been to start from my personal matters and then to link it up with society, the state and the world.
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In principle, I am an anarchist. Kurt Vonnegut once said he was an agnostic who respects Jesus Christ. I am an anarchist who loves democracy.
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A dangerous atmosphere of nationalism is coming in our society. So now I want to criticize this tendency, and I want to do everything to prevent the development of fascism in Japanese society.
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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:
January 31, 1935
Died:
March 3, 2023
(aged 88)
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