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John W. Gardner

"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."

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"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."

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"I did not know of any single soul who succeed in life without a mentorship."

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"Neither a borrower nor a lender be: For loan oft loses both itself and friend And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry."

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"Essential to life, is desiring the things that you need, than needing the things you desire."

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"When this world is full of fashion, be unique by reflecting your own style."

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"Life is a wave of love in the ocean of time."

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"Every idea travels to somewhere but some ideas travel to everywhere, the great ideas!"

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"How magical can a person be when she is blessed with infinite kindness?"

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"The cynic says, "One man can't do anything." I say, "Only one man can do anything.""
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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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"Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them."
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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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"For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred."
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"Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well."
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"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."
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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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"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."
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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."
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