"Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you."
-John Wooden
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"If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.“
-John Wooden
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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."
-John Wooden
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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."
-John Wooden
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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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"I try to avoid saying anything positive about any presidential candidate for fear that if I actually like them then I will kill their campaign."
-Jack Abramoff
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"What none of the critics, positive or negative, grasped was that 'The Searchers' was a different kind of Western, something much darker and more disturbing than the usual fare."
-Glenn Frankel
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"I try to make the good days great and take something positive from the days I'm not feeling good - work on technique or something like that."
-Katie Ledecky
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"The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media."
-Garrett Graff
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"Women were freed from positive duties when they could not perform them, but not when they could."
-Henrietta Szold
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"Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge."
-Carl D. Anderson
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