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"In every community, whether large or small, there are people who lead in their community in easy and difficult times."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

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"We have to mainstream everybody. No matter what their circumstances when they were growing up. Part of that is knowing that after they're finished with school, everybody in this country gets up and goes to work."

"Every year, I am reminded of the kids who aren't in the freshman class and aren't graduating. I remember every single one of them. That is the worst of times for me, to see the future snuffed out."

"By putting people around me who will calm me down and slow me down and make sure I work through an issue."

"The dog doesn't know the difference between Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, so I have to walk the dog early those days too."

"But for me, it is when a student has died. I find the death of a young person the most difficult and painful of times. To explain it to other young people, to see a bright future snuffed out, is just awful. I am haunted by those deaths."

"We can't afford as a nation - not because of money but because of our social fabric - to have large numbers of people who are not working."
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