Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.
BILL BRADLEYTax (reform) is ultimately a decision about values.
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Al Gore clearly has the vision… it’s a much better vision than that of George W. Bush.
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Tax (reform) is ultimately a decision about values.
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We realized that no one of us could be as good as all of us playing unselfishly.
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Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.
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When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.
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The Boy Scouts of America stands for a set of principles. These principles have a lot of staying power. The values you learn as a Scout are like a compass. They can help you find your way through difficult and sometimes unchartered terrain.
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I like the rough impersonality of New York … Human relations are oiled by jokes, complaints, and confessions-all made with the assumption of never seeing the other person again.
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A lot of people want to change the world, but only a few people want to change themselves. When it comes to the issue of race in America, we have to do both.
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Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous
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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 the dictates of community prevail over selfish impulses.
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The point of the game is not how well the individual does, but whether the team wins. That’s the beautiful heart of the game, the blending of personalities, the mutual sacrifices for the group success.
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The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices
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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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Working with the UN’s diplomacy and development arms, we can prevent minor differences from escalating into wars.
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We have to repair that trust … I think anytime a public official lies, he undermines his own authority and squanders the public trust.
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