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The basis of everything, of all knowledge, is the ability to read.

Mitch Albom

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Mitch Albom
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 23
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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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Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all.
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Scenery without solace is meaningless.
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I used to be a classic workaholic, and after seeing how little work and career really mean when you reach the end of your life, I put a new emphasis on things I believe count more. These things include: family, friends, being part of a community, and appreciating the little joys of the average day.
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People don’t die because of loyalty.” They don’t?” She smiled. “Religion? Government? Are we not loyal to such things, sometimes to the death?” Eddie shrugged. Better,” she said, “to be loyal to one another.
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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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If God wants it, it will happen.
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Forgive yourself. Forgive others. Don't wait.
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But our eyes are different, what you see ain't what I see.
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but then she did. she died. no more visits, no more phone calls. And without even realizing it, I began to drift, as if my roots had been pulled, as if I were floating down some side branch of a river.
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Strangers are family you haven't recognize yet
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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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Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralysing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running out.
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I believe that you live on inside the hearts and minds of everyone you've touched while you were here on earth.
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We all have two things in common, no matter who we are: We were born and we are going to die.
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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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There's a story behind everything..but behind all your stories is always your mother's story..because hers is where yours begins.
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Going back to something is harder than you think.
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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 find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them in the sports pages, sometimes I write them in a column, sometimes in a novel, sometimes a play or sometimes in nonfiction. But at the core I always say to myself, 'Is there a story here? Is this something people want to read?'
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