Sargent Shriver Quotes
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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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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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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The Peace Corps is guilty of enthusiasm and a crusading spirit. But we're not apologetic about it.
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My parents were second cousins. That is enough to explain all of my peculiarities.
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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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Serve, serve, serve. Because in the end, it will be the servants who save us all.
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Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting.
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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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As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occurred, my parents would have given me my college education. As it was, I had to scrabble for it.
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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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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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The only genuine elite is the elite of those men and women who gave their lives to justice and charity.
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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. Caring about nuclear war and its victims is the beginning of a cure for our obsession with war. Peace does not comes through strength. Quite the opposite: Strength comes through peace. The practices of peace strengthen us for every vicissitude. . . . The task is immense!
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Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices.
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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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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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If a young person has any idealism at all, it's strongest about the time he finishes college.
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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.
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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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He who knows all things and believes nothing is damned.
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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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My parents had always preached the virtues of hard work. But hard work is one thing; economic struggle is another.
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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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It's the most rewarding thing to be a civil servant.