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Albert Einstein once said “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing it is stupid.” The majority of the people in this room can probably relate to that. Everyone has someone who doubts them, however your ability of doing things is a matter of believing in yourself and although we are tested on our academic abilities throughout school, we are also tested socially. School is more than an academic environment but it is a place where we find ourselves and find those who will stay with you through thick and thin. In able to understand someone, you must do more than judge their mistakes, you have to judge what they have learned from those mistakes. What you have learned from

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