"He came into this Puritan society like a warm glow in a chilly room." Charles W. Eliot, Harvard's president, talking about Louis Agassiz, (1807–73), US zoologist, geologist, and paleontologist
"Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are." John W. Gardener - John William Gardner (October 8, 1912 – February 16, 2002) was Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) under President Lyndon Johnson. He was a strong advocate for citizen participation and founded Common Cause; he became known as "the father of campaign finance reform".
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