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A prime function of a leader is to keep hope alive.
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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Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.
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Renewal is not just innovation and change. It is also the process of bringing the results of change into line with our purposes.
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The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.
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The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.
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Creativity requires the freedom to consider unthinkable alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices.
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When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.
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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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The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.
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We need more than individual value systems we need a shared vision. A nation is held together by shared values, shared beliefs, shared attitudes. That is what enables a people to maintain a cohesive society despite the tensions of daily life. That is what enables them to rise above the conflicts that plague any society.
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An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher.
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The creative individual is particularly gifted in seeing the gap between what is and what could be.
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Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess.
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The play of conflicting interests in a framework of shared purposes is the drama of a free society. It is a robust exercise, and often a noisy one. It is not for the faint-hearted, or the tidy-minded.
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The [nonprofit] sector is the natural home of nonmajoritarian impulses, movements and values. It comfortably harbors innovators, maverick movements, groups which feel they must fight for their place in the sun, and critics of both liberal conservative persuasion.
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The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.
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We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure.
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