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You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you. ↗

— John Wooden

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I don't believe in kicking away ladders. By that, I mean the ladders by which I ascended as a young writer, small magazines that didn't pay anything, and that sort of thing. ↗

— George Woodcock

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I like to move among painters, mathematicians, psychologists, people who can tell me something. ↗

— George Woodcock

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I was allowed to wander where I could. Here is a case in which you search for your independence and allow something creative to come out of that. ↗

— George Woodcock

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I was editing Canadian Literature. I didn't want to let Canadian Literature go, so they reached a nice compromise by which I received half a professor's salary. ↗

— George Woodcock

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What I'm going to be given I gather is not the key to the city, which in many cities is the case. It's the freedom medal, and for me freedom has always been associated traditionally within the city. ↗

— George Woodcock

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What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player. ↗

— John Wooden

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Friendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for you. That's a nice person. There's friendship when you do for each other. It's like marriage - it's two-sided. ↗

— John Wooden

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I think you have to be what you are. Don't try to be somebody else. You have to be yourself at all times. ↗

— John Wooden

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Well, your greatest joy definitely comes from doing something for another, especially when it was done with no thought of something in return. ↗

— John Wooden

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