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We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#disguised #faced #great #insoluble #insoluble problems

I feel incredibly awkward as a human being and incredibly teenaged still. ↗

— Andrew Garfield

#being #feel #human #human being #i

Great artists suffer for the people. ↗

— Marvin Gaye

#for the people #great #people #suffer

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

#burden #conviction #education #educational #else

Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#few #greatness #people #some #some people

In secondary school I was floating - I wasn't passionate about anything. I did a little sport, but it was pretty joyless because the competitiveness was too much to bear. ↗

— Andrew Garfield

#anything #bear #because #competitiveness #did

My parents signed me up for classical guitar lessons, which made for two years of the most depressing Wednesday evenings. ↗

— Andrew Garfield

#classical guitar #depressing #evenings #guitar #guitar lessons

A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil. ↗

— James A. Garfield

#brave man #dares #devil #face #him

The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law. ↗

— James A. Garfield

#civil #civil service #law #never #placed

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim. ↗

— James A. Garfield

#compelled #happen #man #nine #out