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Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.

Bill Bradley

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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Country Issues Lot People Race
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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Basketball Selfish Sports
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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Creativity Imagination Intuition
When conflicts do break out, UN peacekeepers should play a role in defusing and settling them. Without giving up our sovereignty, we can help the UN with better training and better command and control in order to develop more effective peacekeeping forces.
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Better Command Defusing Peace Sovereignty Training
Working with the UN’s diplomacy and development arms, we can prevent minor differences from escalating into wars.
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Command Control Giving Up War Working
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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Assumption Cities Country Like
Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.
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Motivational Sports Success
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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Boys Country Giving
When the playing is over, one can sense that one’s youth has been spent playing a game, and now both the game and youth are gone.
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Athlete Play Sports Success
Leadership is not something that is done to people, like fixing your teeth. Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.
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Done Leadership People Teeth
People tell me, “I’m glad you said that.” But this is not a spectator sport. This is an activity that requires daily moral awakening as well as a commitment that leads to real change.
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Commitment Real Sports
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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Atheism Only Practice Religious
How should we Democrats select the next presidential nominee? Smoke filled rooms? Brokered convention? National primary? Personally, I prefer jump shots from the top of the key.
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Basketball Keys Nba
Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.
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Baseball Basketball Sports
When you’re not practicing, someone somewhere is. And when the two of you meet, assuming roughly equal ability, the other person will win.
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Hard Work Inspirational Sports
Al Gore clearly has the vision… it’s a much better vision than that of George W. Bush.
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Als Gore Vision

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