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· <blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/2737/">Quotes by <em>Gardner, John W.</em></a></blockquote><br> From <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> ·

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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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"I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive."

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"Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach."

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"Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well."

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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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"We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life."

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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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"True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents."

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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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"For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred."

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