"I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing."
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"When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.“
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"I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court."
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"I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify."
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"If not for the success that medicine has made, I might be part of a much different story right now."
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"I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success."
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"The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media."
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"Women were freed from positive duties when they could not perform them, but not when they could."
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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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