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John W. Gardner

"The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water."

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"The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water."

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"Though the earth contains greater energy and mass than any single being, linked together, "people make the world go-round"."

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"Why, because an author has more rights than ordinary people, as everybody knows. People will stand much more from him."

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"Society has a herd psychology, so until we have more good shepherds we are lost."

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"Why have your followers all drawn their swords, may I ask?" said Aslan."May it please Your High Majesty," said the second Mouse, whose name was Peepiceek, "we are all waiting to cut off our own tails if our Chief must go without his. We will not bear the shame of wearing an honor which is denied to the High Mouse.""Ah!" roared Aslan. "You have conquered me. You have great hearts. Not for the sake of your dignity, Reepicheep, but for the love that is between you and your people, and still more for the kindness your people showed me long ago when you ate away the cords that bound me on the Stone Table (and it was then, though you have long forgotten it, that you began to be Talking Mice), you shall have your tail again."

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Amber Hurdle

"The morals of societies are defined by how they treat a strange woman."

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"If God fairness, impartiality, equity, are his essence, that should become dominant in any society."

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"I realize that they giggle and I actually laugh, that they show their cleavage and I have none to show, but just so you know, I am also a girl. I'm one of the three wise MEN. And it's gay to think that James Bond is hot."

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Amber Hurdle

"The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal."

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"We are living in glorious days where each readers' voice can be heard."

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"If we in Nigeria and Africa generally are to experience a true national transformation, we must purposefully begin a campaign for national reorientation."

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"Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach."
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"The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions."
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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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"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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"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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"Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are."
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"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."
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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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"True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents."
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"Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants."
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