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You can't be everybody's friend, you can't save the world, I learned this word: self-preservation. Once you do that, you can be friends with people, but how would you be a friend to anybody if you're not a friend to yourself.

Mike Tyson

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Mike Tyson
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: June 30
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Michael Gerard Tyson
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