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Only praise behavior that you want to be repeated. Never use false praise.

Dean Smith

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Dean Smith
Age: 83 †
Born: 1931
Born: February 28
Died: 2015
Died: February 7
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Emporia
Kansas
Dean Edwards Smith
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