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Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss! [VIDEO]
The creator of the Cat in the Hat and books like "Green Eggs and Ham" would have turned 108 today.
Today would have been the 108th birthday of Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known to readers as the beloved Dr. Seuss.
In honor of the author's birthday, schools and libraries will be celebrating Read Across America Day. to school children, and, on March 7, David Carter will be reading from his pop-up version of Dr. Seuss's Lorax at
Click on the video above to see the animated cartoon version of
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Here are five life lessons Dr. Seuss taught us:
1. "Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened."
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2. "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not."
3. "You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself, any direction you choose."
4. "Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple."
5. "Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you."
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