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All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the spe...  
America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared...  
Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.  
For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred...   Politics
History never looks like history when you are living through it.   History
I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at ...  
If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effec...  
It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisi...   Government
Josh Billings said, "It is not only the most difficult thing to know o...  
Leaders can express the values that hold the society together. Most im...  
Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. Th...  
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.   Experience
Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as...  
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are...   Education
One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and l...  
Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively sim...  
Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narc...  
Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence ...  
Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people th...  
Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling; t...  
The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web ...  
The cynic says, "One man can't do anything." I say, "Only one man can ...  
The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest ...  
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity a...   Society
The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individ...  
True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.  
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly di...  
When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Cong...   Politics
Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is withi...