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The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.
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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California
John William Gardner
John Gardner
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It is not easy to be crafty and winsome at the same time, and few accomplish it after the age of six.
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An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher.
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Creativity requires the freedom to consider unthinkable alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices.
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Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess.
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One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
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The [nonprofit] sector enhances our creativity, enlivens our communities, nurtures individual responsibility, stirs life at the grassroots, and reminds us that we were born free.
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We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life.
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If one defines the term 'dropout' to mean a person who has given up serious effort to meet his responsibilities, then every business office, government agency, golf club and university faculty would yield its quota.
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In the artist's recreation of the world we are enabled to see the world.
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