"I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream."
-Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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"Today's youth are told to get rich or die trying and they really shouldn't take that attitude forward with them."
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"This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher."
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"I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify."
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"Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to."
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"You can't win unless you learn how to lose."
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"Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one."
-John Lennon
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"They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for."
-Tom Bodett
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"The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope."
-Walter Benjamin
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"One lives in the hope of becoming a memory."
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"There was a moment in my life when I really wanted to kill myself. And there was one other moment when I was close to that. But even in my most jaded times, I had some hope."
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"My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here."
-Jim Henson
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