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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.
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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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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It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.
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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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True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.
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In the artist's recreation of the world we are enabled to see the world.
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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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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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All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.
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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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Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess.
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The man who once cursed his fate, now curses himself - and pays his psychoanalyst.
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An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher.
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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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