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I believe it's a fact of life that what we have is less important than what we make out of what we have.
Fred Rogers
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Fred Rogers
Age: 74 †
Born: 1928
Born: March 20
Died: 2003
Died: February 27
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Love and trust, in the space between what’s said and what’s heard in our life, can make all the difference in the world.
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I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline.
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Often out of periods of losing come the greatest strivings toward a new winning streak.
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