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Everyone knows they re going to die,' he said again, 'but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently.

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Mitch Albom
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 23
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All that happens when your dreams come true is a slow, melting realization that it wasn't what you thought.
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Belief, hard work, love–you have those things, you can do anything.
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But our eyes are different, what you see ain't what I see.
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