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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.
Mitch Albom
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Mitch Albom
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 23
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Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up.
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I never hear anything about education. Education - I guess it's just not sexy enough. And everybody claims to love their children and our children are the most important thing, but if that's the case, how come we never hear more about education as an election issue?
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Death doesn't just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed.
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You have to start over. That's what they say. But life is not a board game, and losing a loved one is never really starting over. More like continuing without.
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We do not realize the sound the world makes -- unless, of course, it comes to a stop. Then, when it starts, it sounds like an orchestra.
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when your time came, it came, and that was that. You might say something smart on your way out, but you might just as easily say something stupid.
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Timing is everything. That´s right. Which is why our sages tell us to repent exactly one day before we die. But how do you know it´s the day before you die? I asked. He raised his eyebrows. Exactly
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One withers, another grows.
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the running boy is inside every man, no matter how old he gets.
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The manager once called me the 'best freak' in his stable, and, sad as it sounds, I took pride in that. When you are an outcast, even a tossed stone can be cherished.
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