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In the artist's recreation of the world we are enabled to see the world.

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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Politician
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California
John William Gardner
John Gardner
Artist
World
Enabled
Recreation

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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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It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.
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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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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 [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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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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We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure.
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To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning.
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The world loves talent but pays off on character.
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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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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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The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.
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All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.
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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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We get richer and richer in filthier and filthier communities until we reach a final state of affluent misery - crocus on a garbage heap.
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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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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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Creativity requires the freedom to consider unthinkable alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices.
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A prime function of a leader is to keep hope alive.
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