"If you come to me and say, 'Hey look I'm a racist,' or 'I discriminate against blacks,' or 'I don't like you because you're African American,' I respect that. I can respect you more by doing that. But don't smile in my face, shake my hand, and then you don't really respect me, or want me to be around, or come to your games as the owner of the Clippers."

-- Magic Johnson

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“To me, country music tells a story about, and deals with, the way people live their lives and what they do.”
“War is unnatural, it causes people to act unnaturally.”
“You want society to accept you; but you canâ€™t even accept yourself.”
“Through everything when you have these experiences in life it is important to remember the simple fact that family is always the main thing and most important part of your life.”
“The phosphorous smell which is developed when electricity (to speak the profane language) is passing from the points of a conductor into air, or when lightning happens to fall upon some terrestrial object, or when water is electrolysed, has been engaging my attention the last couple of years, and induced me to make many attempts at clearing up that mysterious phenomenon. Though baffled for a long time, at last, I think, I have succeeded so far as to have got the clue which will lead to the discovery of the true cause of the smell in question.”
“This thing I am feeling, Iâ€™m almost certain, is the closest Iâ€™ll ever come to standing somewhere in between truth and reconciliation.”
“It's always judged on funny first, then the facts, and the realism, and the points that you're trying to make.”

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“In daily practice, reflect on the benefits of love, compassion and kindness, then reflect on the disadvantages of anger. Such continuous contemplation, the growing appreciation of love, has the effect of reducing our inclination towards hatred and increasing our respect for love. By this means even anger can be diminished.”

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