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The purpose of life is to amount to something and have it make some difference that you lived at all.

Abigail Van Buren

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O, heavenly Father: we thank thee for food and remember the hungry. We thank thee for health and remember the sick. We thank thee for friends and remember the friendless. We thank thee for freedom and remember the enslaved. May these remembrances stir us to service, That thy gifts to us may be used for others. Amen.
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Believing that the dream of freedom, brotherhood, and peace for all mankind will someday come true.
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