Sargent Shriver Quotes

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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…
• My parents were second cousins. That is enough to explain all of my peculiarities.
• I never ride just to ride. I ride to catch a fox. I play baseball to make the team.
• 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…
• 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…
• Being accused of enthusiasm is something I'll never live down.
• A line has to be drawn somewhere between what is essential and what is peripheral.
• Do the job first. Worry about the clearance later.
• He who knows all things and believes nothing is damned.
• Does politics have to be injected into everything?
• I can remember at college, living on 30-cent meals.
• I do not think that the educational program of our schools should be determined by what the community thinks it needs.
• I don't have to run the Peace Corps. I could live without seeing my picture in the newspapers and without being interviewed.
• The cure is care. Caring for others is the practice of peace. Caring becomes as important as curing. Caring produces the cure, not the reverse.…
• 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.
• One of the things Mr. Kennedy taught me was that in laying out a new project, you shouldn't try to cope with every little problem.
• It's the most rewarding thing to be a civil servant.
• In the Peace Corps, the volunteer must be a fully developed, mature person. He must not join to run abroad or escape problems.
• 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.…
• The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin.

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