Sargent Shriver Quotes
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I don't think the Gallup Poll technique is going to be very helpful in determining the goals of our educational system.
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What can change the world today is the same thing that has changed it in the past-an idea and the service of dedicated, committed individuals to that idea.
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It is not what you get out of life that counts. It's what you give and what is given from the heart.
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The Peace Corps represents some, if not all, of the best virtues in this society. It stands for everything that America has ever stood for. It stands for everything we believe in and hope to achieve in the world.
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The most important thing that I know about living is love. Nothing surpasses the benefits received by a human being who makes compassion and love the objective of his or her life. For it is only by compassion and love that anyone fulfills successfully their own life’s journey. Nothing equals love.
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If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.
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Christian virtues unite men. Racism separates them.
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Shatter the glass. In our society that is so self-absorbed, begin to look less at yourself and more at each other. Learn more about the face of your neighbor and less about your own.
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A line has to be drawn somewhere between what is essential and what is peripheral.
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Serve, serve, serve. Because in the end, it will be the servants who save us all.
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The natural idealism of youth is an idealism, alas, for which we do not always provide as many outlets as we should.
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It is well to be prepared for life as it is, but it is better to be prepared to make life better than it is.
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My parents were second cousins. That is enough to explain all of my peculiarities.
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Do the job first. Worry about the clearance later.
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Joe Kennedy isn't in the habit of having incompetents around. I wouldn't have lasted three months if I didn't have some ability.
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Being accused of enthusiasm is something I'll never live down.
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But as a philosopher said, one day after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, after all the scientific and technological achievements, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
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It's the most rewarding thing to be a civil servant.
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Peace requires the simple but powerful recognition that what we have in common as human beings is more important and crucial than what divides us.
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He who knows all things and believes nothing is damned.
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The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin.
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In the Peace Corps, the volunteer must be a fully developed, mature person. He must not join to run abroad or escape problems.
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Do we talk about the dignity of work? Do we give our students any reason for believing it is worthwhile to sacrifice for their work because such sacrifices improve the psychological and mental health of the person who makes them?
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Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices.
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Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight.
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I want to warn anyone who sees the Peace Corps as an alternative to the draft that life may well be easier at Fort Dix or at apost in Germany than it will be with us.
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My parents had always preached the virtues of hard work. But hard work is one thing; economic struggle is another.
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I can remember at college, living on 30-cent meals.
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I believe strongly in the Constitutional principle of separating church and state. Our founders were right in fearing that religious freedom would be threatened in the long run by a departure from governmental neutrality in spiritual matters.
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It is precisely our job as Catholics to speak the truth as plainly and precisely as we can.
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Sargent Shriver
- Born: November 9, 1915
- Died: January 18, 2011
- Occupation: American Statesman
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