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My favorite poet was Aeschylus. He wrote: "In our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God."

— Robert F. Kennedy Speech on the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr (1968)

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