John F. KennedyA man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.
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When Gandhi said, “A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death,” the idea of nonviolence was at the very core of his political philosophy. Gandhi was making the point that an idea can be more enduring than a nation or even a person. A person might die, but he or she will not die with the idea of peace still alive.
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