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Letter "J" » John W. Gardner Quotes
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«True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.»
«Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.»
«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.»
«The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.»
Author: John W. Gardner
(Secretary, Writer)
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Age
| Keywords:
aspirations, hallmark, sluggish
«Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.»
«Leaders can express the values that hold the society together. Most important, they can conceive and articulate goals that life people out of their petty preoccupations, carry them above the conflicts that tear a society apart, and unite them in the pursuit of objectives worthy of their best efforts.»
«Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess.»
«History never looks like history when you are living through it.»
«It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.»
Author: John W. Gardner
(Secretary, Writer)
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individually, processes, respect to, with respect to
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