Quotes By John W. Gardner
For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
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.
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
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.
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.
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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