Quote by Robert Kennedy
Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by wh

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

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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. – Robert Kennedy

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Future
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If any man claims the Negro should be content… let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim. – Robert Kennedy

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Change
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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. – Robert Kennedy

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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started. – Henry Ward Beecher

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Wisdom

As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values. – Edward Levi

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Wisdom

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun. – Franz Grillparzer

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Wisdom

The doors of wisdom are never shut. – Benjamin Franklin

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Wisdom

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You swallow hard, thinking to yourself, ‘It must be all right, thousands of people have done it before.’ Then… ‘But this time it’s me — that’s the difference!’ – Charles Shea-Simonds, Sport Parachuting, 1971

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You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint paradise, then in you go. – Nikos Kazantzakis

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