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“Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'”

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Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

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I am more interested in experiencing life than in analyzing it.

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I think the political process has degenerated into name-calling and extremism, and I think that that's unfortunate.

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“Only one thing is inarguable: without a body of convictions, life becomes a series of events in futile pursuit of utopia on earth, or…

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We need to get beyond the politics of the moment, the deficit of the hour, the military count of the day, the numbers that…

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When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.

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Basketball can serve as a kind of metaphor for ultimate cooperation. It is a sport where success, as symbolized by the championship, requires that…

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Princeton ignited my intellectual curiosity and introduced me to a new social world. It... challenged me on the most fundamental levels imaginable. It was…

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I think Jeremy Lin is a really interesting player.

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Legislating is a very human experience in which trust and mutual respect play critical roles.

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Look, I have no qualms about having played basketball. The game has done so much for me. Look at the places I've been, for…

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Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

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Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people.

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Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen.

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A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional…

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