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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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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

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"Anything that ends is a dream. This whole universe is a dream."

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"Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!"

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"There is so much hope in a little flower and so many flowers in a little hope!"

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"For those who wander in the depths, there is nothing deep!"

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"Don't get stuck in one candle; find other candles, create other candles!"

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"And there wasn't anything he wanted to do that he couldn't make time for. What did he have to mope about, really? What more did he want? Love, he could hear Eve saying. Purpose. Love. Purpose. Those are the things that you can't plan for. Those are the things that just happen. And what if they don't happen? Do you spend your whole life pining for them? Waiting to be happy?"

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Amber Hurdle

"Eleanor had never thought about killing herself " ever " but she thought a lot about stopping."

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"I've diagnosed myself and discovered I have a limited 'life span' you can do this to. Then live life to its fullest in everything you do!"

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"Hope sustains life, but misplaced hope prolongs recessions."

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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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"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."
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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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"One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure."
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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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"True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents."
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"Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach."
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"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all."
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"Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them."
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"The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions."
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