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- "All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species. "
- "America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. ..."
- "Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. "
- "For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred. "
- "History never looks like history when you are living through it. "
- "I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education ..."
- "If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective ..."
- "It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a ..."
- "Josh Billings said, "It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but ..."
- "Leaders can express the values that hold the society together. Most important, they can conceive ..."
- "Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders ..."
- "Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. "
- "Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we ..."
- "Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut ..."
- "One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing ..."
- "Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and ..."
- "Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary ..."
- "Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them. "
- "Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are. "
- "Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling; true happiness involves the full use of ..."
- "The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures ..."
- "The cynic says, "One man can't do anything." I say, "Only one man can do ..."
- "The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free ..."
- "The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in ..."
- "The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden ..."
- "True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents. "
- "We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble ..."
- "When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the ..."
- "Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my ..."
