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I traded lots of dreams for a bigger paycheck, and I never even realized I was doing it.

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Mitch Albom
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 23
Author
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Trenton
New Jersey
Mitchell David Mitch Albom
Mitchell David Albom
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First and foremost, I would put a massive national emphasis on illiteracy with real markers that you could measure and real efforts to do a one-on-one kind of tutoring until kids can get up to snuff on that.
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She had a bottomless well of love for me.
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People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does...And when you get threatened, you start looking out only for yourself. You start making money a god. It is all part of this culture.
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Being here in Detroit, our public education in this city is - it's shocking. And the oversight of it and the oversight of the teachers and the funding is nonexistent, and the priority that's put on it is so low.
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The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.
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You count the hours you could have spent with your mother. It's a lifetime in itself.
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Life goes quickly, doesn't it?
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