Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.
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True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.
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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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For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
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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.
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Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess.
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