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Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is

Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight. – Sargent Shriver

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As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadnt occurred, my parents would have given me my college education. As it was, I had to scrabble for it. – Sargent Shriver

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It is precisely our job as Catholics to speak the truth as plainly and precisely as we can. – Sargent Shriver

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The Peace Corps would give thousands of young Americans a chance to see at first hand the conditions in remote areas of the world. – Sargent Shriver

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Character… is a habit, the daily choice of right over wrong it is a moral quality which grows to maturity in peace and is not suddenly developed on the outbreak of war. – Charles Wilson

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