"When you're a kid it's people's cruelty that makes you cry, then when you're an adult it's their kindness."

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He wove those three threads into a talk ranging from annually spending a week at Halloween as a child collecting candy to giving candy to hundreds of children at Halloween as an adult; from childhood assistance he received from adults, particularly after his parents divorced, to saying I challenge you to be a caring adult in someone's life ... Great times call forth great leaders.

— Thomas Jefferson