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One of the things he'd tell us is that if you've got something in your head, nobody can take it away from you. So, yes sir, he was always telling us to go to school, to go to college, to go get an education. Become somebody who makes a difference. That's what he'd say. It had a tremendous influence on me.

Dick Blake

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