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Bill Clinton: Life is 50 percent what happens to you and 50 percent in how you respond to what happens to you.

On the recordJanuary 10, 2000
Life is 50 percent what happens to you and 50 percent in how you respond to what happens to you.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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Remarks at a Reception for Representative Sheila Jackson Lee in Houston, Texas

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