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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#emphasized #game #how #jordan #learned

One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free. ↗

— Jack Henry Abbott

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The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#by the time #change #critics #during #everybody

The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#defense #done #effort #extra #get

Stem cell research holds out the promise of finding cures and treatments for a wide range of diseases. ↗

— Tom Allen

#cell research #cures #diseases #finding #holds

When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#blur #fans #get #line #players

You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#body #center #emotions #ever #forget

I think the success of democracy is not really police security; it's the presence of a broad middle class. The stronger the middle class of a people is, the less you have to worry about one group coming in and exploiting the democratic process for its own ends. ↗

— King Abdullah II

#broad #class #coming #democracy #democratic

Whenever you have a crisis, you're always going to have the extremists taking advantage of the situation. ↗

— King Abdullah II

#always #crisis #extremists #going #situation

And as an American colleague said to me several months ago, he said, 'I think the challenge in Jordan - and, again, this is for the rest of the Middle East - we need to define what center is. And once we can define what center is to a Jordanian, then we can decide what's left and what's right of that. ↗

— King Abdullah II

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