Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess.
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The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.
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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
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America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.
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For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
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Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.
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