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The cynic says, 'One man can't do anything.' I say, 'Only one man can do anything.'
- John W. Gardner
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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.
- John W. Gardner
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Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess.
- John W. Gardner
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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.
- John W. Gardner
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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.
- John W. Gardner
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#Politics
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#Up
It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.
- John W. Gardner
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For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
- John W. Gardner
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Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.
- John W. Gardner
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One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
- John W. Gardner
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Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.
- John W. Gardner
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If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.
- John W. Gardner
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#Helping
#More
#People
#Respect
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.
- John W. Gardner
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Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.
- John W. Gardner
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We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
- John W. Gardner
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#Opportunities
#Problems
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True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.
- John W. Gardner
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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
- John W. Gardner
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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.
- John W. Gardner
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#Grow
#People
#Today
#Young
Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.
- John W. Gardner
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#People
#Society
#Some People
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.
- John W. Gardner
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#Humble
#Society
#Water
History never looks like history when you are living through it.
- John W. Gardner
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#Like
#Living
#Never
#Through
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
- John W. Gardner
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#Drawing
#Experience
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