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Robert Kennedy Quotes: Some men see things as they are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were, and ask why not.
         

Some men see things as they are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were, and ask why not.


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Some men see things as they are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were, and ask why not.
         



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