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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.
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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For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
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Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.
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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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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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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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One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
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The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.
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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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True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.
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The man who once cursed his fate, now curses himself - and pays his psychoanalyst.
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In the artist's recreation of the world we are enabled to see the world.
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Creativity requires the freedom to consider unthinkable alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices.
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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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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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It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.
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