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The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

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I can think of no better way of redeeming this tragic world today than love and laughter. Too many of the young have forgotten how to laugh, and too many of the elders have forgotten how to love. Would not our lives be lightened if only we could all learn to laugh more easily at ourselves and to love one another?

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There is no academic virtue in playing mediocre football and no academic vice in winning a game that by all odds one should lose... There has indeed been a surrender at Notre Dame, but it is a surrender to excellence on all fronts, and in this we hope to rise above ourselves with the help of God.

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Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves.
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Theodore Hesburgh

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Born: May 25, 1917
Died: February 26, 2015 (aged 97)
Bio: The Rev. Theodore Martin Hesburgh, a priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross, was president of the University of Notre Dame for 35 years.
Known for:
  1. Travels with Ted & Ned (1992)
  2. God and the world of man (1960)
  3. Patterns for lifelong learning (1973)

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