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Whatever opens opportunity and hope will help to prevent crime and foster responsibility.

— Lyndon B. Johnson Attributed

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reported in Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans, and Andrew Frothingham, And I Quote: The Definitive Collection of Quotes, Sayings, and Jokes for the Contemporary Speechmaker (St. Martin's Press, 2003), p. 27. ISBN 0312307446.

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