"Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you."
-John Wooden
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"Defense is a definite part of the game, and a great part of defense is learning to play it without fouling.“
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"I'm not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. I'm going to say I'm opposed to war. But I'm also opposed to protests that deny other people their rights."
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"There's as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said - he'd rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much."
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"I like to spend time in the past, with the things that have been important to me."
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"I found golf was too time consuming, but I did enjoy it."
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"A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of."
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"Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness."
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"I remember a great America where we made everything. There was a time when the only thing you got from Japan was a really bad cheap transistor radio that some aunt gave you for Christmas."
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