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This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I woul

This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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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

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I was getting hot flashes and sweats on a regular basis. Thats not normal, even for my age. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe. – John Polkinghorne

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To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks. – Irving R. Kaufman

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Woz is living his own life now. He hasnt been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history. – Steve Jobs

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From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history. – Umberto Eco

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