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Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess.
John W. Gardner
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John W. Gardner
Age: 89 †
Born: 1912
Born: October 8
Died: 2002
Died: February 16
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John William Gardner
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The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
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Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.
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It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.
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