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I take the good with the bad, and I try to face them both with as much calm and dignity as I can muster.

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Arthur Ashe
Age: 49 †
Born: 1943
Born: July 10
Died: 1993
Died: February 6
Military Officer
Tennis Player
Richmond
Virginia
Arthur Robert Ashe
Jr.
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Trying
Much
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Calm
Dignity
Attitude
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We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.
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We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.
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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
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