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All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.
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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Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess.
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America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.
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We have to face the fact that most men and women out there are more stale than they know, more bored than they care to admit.
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In the United States, to an unprecedented degree, the individual's social role has come to be determined not by who he is but by what he can accomplish.
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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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An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher.
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The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.
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For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
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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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Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
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Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.
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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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If the modern leader doesn't know the facts, he is in grave trouble, but rarely do the facts provide unqualified guidance.
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True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.
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Nothing can be more readily disproved than the old saw, You can't keep a good man down. Most human societies have been beautifully organized to keep good men down.
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The world loves talent but pays off on character.
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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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At home we have lost the capacity to see what is before us. Travel shakes us out of our apathy, and we regain an attentiveness that heightens every experience. The exhilaration of travel has many sources, but surely one of them is that we recapture in some measure the unspoiled awareness of children.
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