A Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

Education in the understanding of citizenship is a short-term affair if we are honest and earnest.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Affair Citizenship Earnest Education Honest Short Short-Term Term Understanding

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Mahatma Gandhi
Indian - Leader
October 2, 1869 - January 30, 1948

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Randy Pausch

I'll take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long term.

Randy Pausch

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Lawrence Kohlberg

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Be brutally honest about the short term and optimistic and confident about the long term.

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Al Gore

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Helen Sharman

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Paul Polman

I understand that fans think short-term, and there's nothing wrong with that. You live or you die in the short term. But I believe in our system, and when you do that, you don't make knee-jerk decisions.

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