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People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does.

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Mitch Albom
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 23
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And in that line now was a whiskered old man, with a linen cap and a crooked nose, who waited in a place called the Stardust Band Shell to share his part of the secret of heaven: that each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.
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