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If you would be loved, love and be lovable. - Benjamin Franklin Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once. - Winston Churchill If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. - Mother Teresa It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand. - Mark Twain Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. - William Shakespeare The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. - Henry David Thoreau

Art gropes, it stalks like a hunter lost in the woods, listening to itself and to everything around it, unsure of itself, waiting to pounce.

- John W. Gardner | Art and the Artist Quotes

John Milton called his school, Christ College, 'a stony-hearted stepmother'. The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.

- John W. Gardner | Education Quotes

History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always feels uncomfortable.

- John W. Gardner | History and Historians Quotes

If one defines the term 'dropout' to mean a person who has given up serious effort to meet his responsibilities, then every business office, government agency, golf club and university faculty would yield its quota.

- John W. Gardner | Work Quotes

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

- John W. Gardner | One Day Quotes

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

- John W. Gardner | Failures and Mistakes Quotes