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To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning.
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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One exemplary act may affect one life, or even millions of lives. All those who set standards for themselves, who strengthen the bonds of community, who do their work creditably and accept individual responsibility, are building the common future.
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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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For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
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What leaders have to remember is that somewhere under the somnolent surface is the creature that builds civilizations, the dreamer of dreams, the risk taker. And remembering that, the leader must reach down to the springs that never dry up, the ever-fresh springs of the human spirit.
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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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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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In the artist's recreation of the world we are enabled to see the world.
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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 best kept secret in America today is that people would rather work hard for something they believe in than live a life of aimless diversion.
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