“This world demands the qualities of youth; not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the life of ease.”

— Robert F. Kennedy

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American politician and brother of John F. Kennedy 1925–1968

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