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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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History never looks like history when you are living through it. ↗

— John W. Gardner

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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. ↗

— John W. Gardner

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Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#belief #community #corrupt #cynical #existence

The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life. ↗

— 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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All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species. ↗

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

— Andrew Garfield

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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. ↗

— John W. Gardner

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