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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.

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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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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.

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Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.

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All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species.

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

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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.

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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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If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.

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For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Educator

Born: October 8th, 1912

Died: February 16th, 2002

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