Brian Henson, Jim's son and now chairman of The Jim Henson Company, wrote a on Google's blog in which he said, "Jim often had a little lesson about the important things in life: How to be a good person. How to believe in yourself and follow your dreams ... Every day for him was joyously filled with the surprises of other people's ideas. I often think that if we all lived like that, not only would life be more interesting, we'd all be a lot happier."

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