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"If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying."
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"Cowards say it can't be done, critics say it shouldn't have been done, creator say well done."
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"Every great achiever nurtures a positive mindset."
"The reward of a thing well done is having done it."
"Every great accomplishments requires great grace and great enthusiasm."
"The breathtaking view at the mountaintop is compensation for all of the breath lost whilst sweating towards it."
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"If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism."
"A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses."
"To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it."
"For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual."
"We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective."
"The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people."
"A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog."
"Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type."
"An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen."
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