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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.: John W. Gardner (1912 - 2002)
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Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied: 'Only stand out of my light.' Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light.: John W. Gardner (1912 - 2002)
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History never looks like history when you are living through it.: John W. Gardner (1912 - 2002), quoted by Bill Moyers
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Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exaulted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy...neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.: John W. Gardner (1912 - 2002)

Results from Poor Man's College:

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.: John W. Gardner (1912 - 2002)

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The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy...neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.: John W. Gardner (1912 - 2002)

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