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"We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community."
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"I can live for two months on a good compliment."
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"If we do right, we shall rejoice."
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"I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year."
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"To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer."
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"That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle."
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"Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth."
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"The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all."
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"Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment."
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"Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another."
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"I've tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we'll win again, but I've also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids, then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball, but to sport."
Failure

"My parents didn't really understand too much about sport. At that time, we were in a Polish community in the inner city of Chicago, and I was the youngest of a bunch of cousins. Polish families are real big, with cousins and aunts and uncles."
Time

"Playing sport was somewhat frivolous, but I liked it. I rebelled a little bit, and wouldn't go to music lessons and things like that, but I would go and play ball. My parents learned to love it because they saw how much I got out of it."
Love

"Even though we want huge individual egos, our collective ego is unbelievable."
Ego

"I think you're not a human being unless you have doubts and fears."
Being

"I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts."
Positive

"The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions."
Truth

"A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That's how I want you to play."
Basketball

"Actually, the Kentucky moment was better than winning the two National Championships, because it was the epitome of what I try to get from a team in a crisis situation."
Winning

"My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that's still what I do: teach."
Ambition
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