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Type: Politician Quotes Category: American Politician Quotes Date of Birth: November 9, 1915 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: Sargent Shriver Related Authors: Benjamin Franklin Robert Kennedy Alexander Hamilton Ron Paul Sarah Palin Hillary Clinton Nancy Pelosi Everett Dirksen Rahm Emanuel |
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A line has to be drawn somewhere between what is essential and what is peripheral.
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Sargent Shriver Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight. Sargent Shriver 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. Sargent Shriver Being accused of enthusiasm is something I'll never live down. Sargent Shriver Christian virtues unite men. Racism separates them. Sargent Shriver Do the job first. Worry about the clearance later. Sargent Shriver 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? Sargent Shriver Does politics have to be injected into everything? Sargent Shriver He who knows all things and believes nothing is damned. Sargent Shriver I can remember at college, living on 30-cent meals. Sargent Shriver I do not think that the educational program of our schools should be determined by what the community thinks it needs. Sargent Shriver I don't have to run the Peace Corps. I could live without seeing my picture in the newspapers and without being interviewed. Sargent Shriver I don't think the Gallup Poll technique is going to be very helpful in determining the goals of our educational system. Sargent Shriver I hate goofballs. Sargent Shriver I never ride just to ride. I ride to catch a fox. I play baseball to make the team. Sargent Shriver 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. Sargent Shriver If a young person has any idealism at all, it's strongest about the time he finishes college. Sargent Shriver If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society. Sargent Shriver In the Peace Corps, the volunteer must be a fully developed, mature person. He must not join to run abroad or escape problems. Sargent Shriver It is precisely our job as Catholics to speak the truth as plainly and precisely as we can. Sargent Shriver |
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