Category: John W. Gardner

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John W. Gardner learning

John W. Gardner | learning

One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

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history John W. Gardner

John W. Gardner | history

History never looks like history when you are living through it.

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happiness John W. Gardner

John W. Gardner | happiness

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

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John W. Gardner | great

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities – brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

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government John W. Gardner

John W. Gardner | government

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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government John W. Gardner

John W. Gardner | government

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

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John W. Gardner | good

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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freedom John W. Gardner

John W. Gardner | freedom

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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failure John W. Gardner

John W. Gardner | failure

One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

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experience John W. Gardner

John W. Gardner | experience

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

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