There is no academic virtue ...

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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 Theodore Hesburgh

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The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
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 Theodore Hesburgh
The greatest fallout of the space program, ... was not the close-up view of the moon, but a look at spaceship Earth from afar. For the first time in the history of humanity, we were able to see our planet for what it really is.
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 Theodore Hesburgh