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I hope you're proud of yourself for the times you've said yes, when all it meant was extra work for you and was seemingly helpful only to someone else.

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Fred Rogers
Age: 74 †
Born: 1928
Born: March 20
Died: 2003
Died: February 27
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Try your best to make goodness attractive. That's one of the toughest assignments you'll ever be given.
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My friendship with Mitzi was like the friendship that many children have with their pets. My mother and father thought it was good for me to have a dog for a companion. Well it was good for me, but it was only many years after she died that I began to understand how good it was, and why.
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The world needs a sense of worth, and it will achieve it only by its people feeling that they are worthwhile.
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Peace means far more than the opposite of war.
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Silence is so powerful, so important. There is so much to be learned from it.
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