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- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.
- Creative
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Greatness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
- Integrity
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Free Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Excellence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The cynic says, 'One man can't do anything.' I say, 'Only one man can do anything.'
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.
- Faithful
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess.
- Institutions
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- Nov 07, 2020