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“I believe that appreciation is a holy thing, that when we look for what's best in the person we happen to be with at the moment, we're doing what God does; so in appreciating our neighbor, we're participating in something truly sacred.
— Fred Rogers
Television host, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
Commencement Address at Middlebury College May, 2001
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