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Helping can go unacknowledged.

Sometimes we are unaware of our helpful influence on others.

Act assuming our potential influence. Even if this influence remains forever hidden.

A group of high school students was being inducted into an honor society, and a professor from a nearby university had been asked to give a few remarks to the inductees. I was a proud parent in the audience, but I braced myself for some well-meaning but boilerplate words of congratulations. I could not have been more wrong. It may have been one of the more unexpectedly profound speeches I have ever heard.

He told a story of his growing up in a rural part of the state. Neither of his parents had finished high school, and he had received little encouragement to do........

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