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	Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.   
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	Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.   
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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.   
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	When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.   
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	The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.   
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	There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is.   
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	For a long time, I operated under the Chinese proverb that there are four kinds of leaders: those who you laugh at, those who you hate, those who you love and those who you don't even know that they're leaders.   
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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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	All I have are the people.   
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	Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball.   
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	Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous.   
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	Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the environment has to be preserved.   
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	Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.   
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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.   
