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To know you're going to die, and to be prepared for it at any time. That's better. That way you can actually be more involved in your life while you're living.

Mitch Albom

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Mitch Albom
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 23
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Forgive yourself. Forgive others. Don't wait.
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All I was afraid of is saying good-bye.
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Once heaven is done with grandma, we'd like her back, thanks.
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A man who can take anything will find most things unsatisfying. And a man without memories is just a shell.
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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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Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up.
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Young men go to war. Sometimes because they have to, sometimes because they want to. Always, they feel they are supposed to. This comes from the sad, layered stories of life, which over the centuries have seen courage confused with picking up arms, and cowardice confused with laying them down.
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One withers, another grows.
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Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up, and giving up is the ground floor of doing yourself in. It’s not so much, what’s the point? It’s more like, what’s the difference?
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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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