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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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You have to find what’s good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now. Looking back makes you competitive. And, age is not a competitive issue.
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Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do. Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it. Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others. Don't assume that it's too late to get involved.
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There is a time for hello and a time for good-bye. It's why the act of burying thing seems natural, but the act of digging them up does not.
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With Marguerite, he wanted only time—more and more time—and he was granted it, nighttimes and daytimes and nighttimes again.
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But there's a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking. But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begin.
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Silence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge.
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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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I give myself a good cry if I need it, but then I concentrate on all good things still in my life.
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You can be a mama's boy, be a daddy's boy, but you can't be both. So you cling to the one you think you might lose.
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You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.
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Dor: there is a reason God lmits our days. Victor: why? Dor: to make each one precious.
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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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Don't get too attached to anything.
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There are many things in my life that I wish I could take back. Many moments I would recast.
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What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you're so wrecked it's hard to believe you ever were a child?
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Had he known his death was imminent, he might have gone somewhere else. Instead, he did what we all do. He went about his dull routine as if all the days in the world were still to come. ~pg 4
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You knew me. You knew that person, but you don't know the person I'm trying to become... You are not your past!
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Suddenly, details seemed extremely important. Details were something to grab on to, a way to insert myself into the story.
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For years I wrote in my basement. More recently I graduated to one floor above, an office with all my books and music and - ta da! - a window.
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No matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We don't see what we could be.
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