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I think it's very important - no matter what you may do professionally - to keep alive some of the healthy interests of your youth. Children's play is not just kids' stuff. Children's play is rather the stuff of most future inventions.

Fred Rogers

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Fred Rogers
Age: 74 †
Born: 1928
Born: March 20
Died: 2003
Died: February 27
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