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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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Mitch Albom
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 23
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There is a big confusion in this country over what we want verses what we need...you need food. You want a chocolate sundae.
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When hope is gone, time is punishment.
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Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them.
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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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But our eyes are different, what you see ain't what I see.
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The news of life is carried via telephone. A baby's birth, a couple engaged, a tragic car accident on a late night highway - most milestones of the human journey, good or bad, are foreshadowed by the sound of a ringing.
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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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Life goes quickly, doesn't it?
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The truth is, when our mothers held us, rocked us, stroked our heads -none of us ever got enough of that. We all yearn in some way to return to those days when we were completely taken care of - unconditional love, unconditional attention. Most of us didn't get enough.
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Fairness, does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young. ~ The blue man
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Did you feel guilty cursing God--you, of all people?' No,' he said. 'Because even in doing so, I was recognizing there was a greater power than me.' He paused. And that is how I began to heal.
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Holding on to things only breaks your heart.
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Tears are okay [Morrie Schwartz]
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What you have done to this point cannot be undone. What you do next... It is still unwritten.
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Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.
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Your voice will come. We all go through the same thing. You cannot talk when you first arrive. He smiled. It helps you listen.
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Heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners.
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The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn’t the family. If you don’t have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from a family, you don’t have much at all. Love is so supremely important. As our great poet Auden said, ‘Love each other or perish’.
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When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.
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I don't use any fance quill pens or pads, because I can't read my own handwriting. I just use whatever computer is laying around, and start writing.
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