Ted Kennedy: In His Own Words
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"We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we make."
Speaking at Harvard on Dec. 1, 2008, upon being conferred with an honorary degree from the university; Kennedy had been diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor six months earlier
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