One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure. - John W. Gardner - Quotesmemo.com

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John W. Gardner

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

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To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning.

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The creative individual is particularly gifted in seeing the gap between what is and what could be.

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

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We cannot have islands of excellence in a sea of slovenly indifference to standards.

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From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.

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