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People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does.


Mitch Albom

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TREYCO What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is young men only wish to do prestigious work
SUNDAY ADELAJA What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is Our young people look for quick answers and...
SUNDAY ADELAJA It is because the human spirit knows, deep down, that all lives intersect. That death doesn't just t...
MITCH ALBOM Fairness," he said, 'does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young.
MITCH ALBOM All we are is what we're told and most of thats been lies.
JOHN RZEZNIK People are only mean when they are threatened.
MITCH ALBOM What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is Fraudulent money schemes are prevalent in t...
SUNDAY ADELAJA Thats what a ship is, you know. Its not a keel and a hull and a deck and sails. Thats what a ship ne...
JOHNNY DEPP What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is the escapist mentality becomes prevalent, g...
SUNDAY ADELAJA What well be trying to do against La Villa will be perfection. We want to perfect our plays and play...
HECTOR GARCIA What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is People forget that they have to create thei...
SUNDAY ADELAJA Run... That's what's going to save you from the deadly virus

"PORNOGRAPHY
DEYTH BANGER I want Jesus to come back and say 'THATS NOT WHAT I MEANT'" -
MARGARET CHO Love his heart and soul not his money thats what we call love
GUNDO MULAUDZI What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is armed robbery and theft becomes the order o...
SUNDAY ADELAJA "Fashion is about good energy. Its about feelings. Thats what I have to give the people, good energy...
ADRIANA LIMA The concept of a relationship is fucking idiotic, but thats what makes them normal.
CRAIG DEARING There are only good people in this world. Sometimes good people do bad things, but thats ok, we forg...
CHARLIE JAMES The only way you can do that decrease taxes, balance the budget, and increase military spending is w...
JOHN B. ANDERSON I wish people could acheive what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize ...
ALANIS MORISETTE Culture does not make people. People make culture. If it is true that the full humanity of women is ...
CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE I have found that love does not include hacking into email, deleting friends, pictures,reading journ...
STARGAZER But thats not love, he thought, thats not what she wants, nor what any of them want, they do not wan...
JAMES JONES There is only one success-to be able to spend your life in your own way. Morrie Schwartz, in "Tuesda...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Now, thats a pie!
JAMES MAY All of our forebears contributed to what South Africa has become. That does not, however, mean that ...
MANGOSUTHU BUTHELEZI today is over. thats what it seems but is alright i will see you in my dreams
CHRIS MACHADO What sorts of people dig up a black grandparent and then demand special privileges? What does it mea...
DANIEL GREENFIELD Me fail english? Thats unpossible.
MATT GROENING We got going and came out really strong in the first half, and thats what we needed to do. But once ...
EVA LANG We havent broken it down, ... When we met with (Johnson), thats not what she wanted. We opted not to...
BETH PAYNE Cursive writing does not mean what I think it does.
NANCY CARTWRIGHT Cursive writing does not mean what I think it does
NANCY CARTWRIGHT Do you think I’ll ever get better at this? That my heart might someday stop trying to jump out of ...
STEPHENIE MEYER "We all have a call in life... Mine is to be me. No matter how hard, no matter how inconvenient. No ...
NILSA FACCHI-BOLLIER Detachment doesn’t mean you don’t let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it ...
MITCH ALBOM Have you ever really had a teacher? One who saw you as a raw but precious thing, a jewel that, with ...
MITCH ALBOM Do the kind of things that come from the heart, When you do, you won't be dissatisfied, you won't be...
MORRIE SCHWARTZ Just because our brains are limited in size, does not mean our minds need be.
JEFFREY FRY What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular...
ERICH FROMM Look at me, chica." When she does, I repeat, "Eres hermosa."
"What does it mean?"
"You're ...
SIMONE ELKELES I've had a few students come (to our office) and ask questions, but a lot of people aren't familiar ...
PATRICK COOK What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible.
UMBERTO ECO You often love someone not for what they are, but for what you are when you are with them.
JEFFREY FRY What does it mean when nightmares dream of peace? When shadows wish for light?
MELISSA MARR What does infinity mean to you?
Are you not infinity and yourself?
DEJAN STOJANOVIC I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON What we collectively decide about how to bail out our economy, how to pull our economy out of a ditc...
ELIZABETH WARREN Don't cry pretty girl. Who you are is why you're so good at everything. You won't let yourself be ot...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Its a funny thing, I noticed that when people are joking theyre usually dead serious, and when theyr...
JIM MORRISON I said, 'What does that mean?
DOUGLAS FRANTZ To you everything thats happening in the world appears phony, to be something other than what it rea...
J. D. SALINGER Yo, thats illogical I cant have it!
NICK JONAS I feel bad for people who don't drink because when they wake up in the morning and get out of bed......
FRANK SINATRA What the heck are these traders talking about when they say this is going to be a quick and clean wa...
BROOKS TUCKER I don't see anybody who can beat us when we play our best. Does that mean we'll win state? Only time...
STEVE SEGADELLI What does fighting crime mean, exactly? Does it mean upholding the law when a woman shoplifts to fee...
ALAN MOORE Our laws are a reflection of our culture. Our culture does not condone the torture of innocent and d...
JOE MOORE I wrote for that back in the mid-1980s. Thats what got me thinking New England should have something...
BURT FEINTUCH Breakthroughs are what define our species. They come about because we are threatened.
BURT RUTAN People say, 'I like medium,' but what does medium mean? We do more detail.
KRISDA WATANASAK We are designed to be tough, thats a success story of all life
KAT MORGAN In a single moment we can understand we are not just facing a knee pain, or our discouragement and o...
SHARON SALZBERG Thats why my biggest problems were with LL and Run.
KOOL MOE DEE Thats called hypocrisy, you shuck face piece of -!
JAMES DASHNER Enjoying life does not mean we have to live our dreams and do what we wish, but we have to make othe...
ANUJ SOMANY We should never denigrate any other culture but rather help people to understand the relationship be...
EDWARD T. HALL People are like vampires, they suck the best qualities out of people they date. Thats why one day, y...
NATHAN ELMO MELO “Sometimes I try reading books upside-down because I think, thats what it would be like if I could...
LEIF ERICSSON LEO VENESS Maybe thats what hell is. You go mad, and all your demonds come and get you just as fast as you can ...
ANNE RICE When we get government off the backs of our job creators, small businesses have a better chance of t...
ANN WAGNER We should recognize that nationalism does not mean discriminating against people of a different nati...
SUN YAT-SEN Thats the spirit-one part brave,three parts fool.
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI ‎"Ok... thats enough of this... time to get rich."
EULLYS "JEWELZ" HINNANT III People forget that unauthorized does not mean untrue and authorized does not mean authentic.
KITTY KELLEY Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do somethin...
MITCH ALBOM Much of what we called "depression" was really dissatisfaction, a result of setting a bar impossibly...
MITCH ALBOM Ultimately, what any company does when it is successful is merely a lagging indicator of its existin...
SATYA NADELLA Is being a Republican really about touting "wholesome" conservative values? Or a particular income s...
SUZY KASSEM What do you mean you are intercepting the wrong subject? How often does it occur? How long does it g...
JAMES DEMPSEY You need to develop the ability to just be yourself and not be doing something, that's what the phon...
LOUIS C. K. Many people still don't know exactly what Goodwill does for the community. We are trying to pair loc...
DAVID COBB The question is who defines 'regularly' and what does it mean?
JEFF SIEGEL Our economy is stronger than people have been talking about all year long. I am not surprised to see...
JAMES HUGUET What does it mean to die when you can live until the end of the world?
ANNE RICE We talk about passion, but what does that mean?.
MAL MENINGA I don't like people driving faster, that may cause an Accident... Thats the Reason I overtake them.....
NASIR KHAN No use thinking of the past for its gone, don't think of the future because it has to come, think of...
KAZI SHAMS We Don't live a moment for long, thats why we keep it as a memory. A memory to remember that moment ...
RONI POLUS Thats why your doing this? Because Lissa told you to?
RICHELLE MEAD This is the most regressive tax thats ever been imposed.
STEVE HUNTER Every dollar the Federal Government does not take from us, every decision it does not make for us wi...
RONALD REAGAN What does it mean to say that government might have a responsibility? Government can't have a respon...
MILTON FRIEDMAN What happens to other people does not necessarily will happen to you.
DANIEL MELGAçO Now love's the only thing thats free. We must take it where it's found. Pretty soon it may be costly...
TRACY CHAPMAN i forgot my past, thats not in my heart aswell, its only in ur mind that bothers both of us...
ADEET AHMED Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does...
PERICLES Some people don’t realize what they have until it’s gone, but that does not always mean they are...
STEPHAN LABOSSIERE

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MITCH ALBOM All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.
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MITCH ALBOM For all that was happening to him, his voice was strong and inviting, and his mind was vibrating wit...
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MITCH ALBOM You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.
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MITCH ALBOM It’s not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgive ourselves. For all the thin...
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MITCH ALBOM Giving to other people makes me feel alive. Not my car or my house. Not what I look like in the mirr...
MITCH ALBOM Don't let go too soon, but don't hold on too long.
MITCH ALBOM Love wins, love always wins.
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MITCH ALBOM No one gets left behind, remember?
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MITCH ALBOM Anyone who tries to write a memoir needs to keep in mind that what's interesting to you isn'...
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MITCH ALBOM There is no such thing as 'too late' in life.
MITCH ALBOM I thought about all the people I knew who spent many of their waking hours feeling sorry for themsel...
MITCH ALBOM People are only mean when they are threatened.
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MITCH ALBOM Devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself ...
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MITCH ALBOM there are a few rules I know to be true about love and marriage: If you don't respect the other pers...
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MITCH ALBOM I like myself better when I'm with you.
MITCH ALBOM Accept who you are; and revel in it.
MITCH ALBOM One day spent with someone you love can change everything.
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MITCH ALBOM I was astonished by his complete lack of self-pity. Morrie, who could no longer dance, swim, bathe, ...
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MITCH ALBOM I watched him now, his hands working gingerly, as if he were learning to use them for the first time...
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MITCH ALBOM Morrie was in a wheelchair full-time now, getting used to helpers lifting him like a heavy sack from...
MITCH ALBOM Do I wither up and disappear, or do I make the best of my time left?..
He would not wither. He...
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you cannot...
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MITCH ALBOM That was the end of his driving..
That was the end of his walking free..
That was the en...
MITCH ALBOM Morrie closed his eyes. "I know, Mitch. You mustn't be afraid of my dying. I've had a good life, and...
MITCH ALBOM I didn't want to be ordinary," I mumbled.
My mother looked up. "What ordinary, Charley?"
"...
MITCH ALBOM Take any emotion—love for a woman, or grief for a loved one, or what I’m going through, fear and...
MITCH ALBOM Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.
MITCH ALBOM Try to imagine a life without timekeeping. You probably can’t. You know the month, the year, the d...
MITCH ALBOM I lived," Dor said, "but I was not alive.
MITCH ALBOM Don't get too attached to anything.
MITCH ALBOM Sitting high above the city, Father Time realized that knowing something and understanding it were n...
MITCH ALBOM When hope is gone, time is punishment.
MITCH ALBOM Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paraly...
MITCH ALBOM With no loss or sacrifice, we can't appreciate what we have.
MITCH ALBOM Ends are for yesterday, not tomorrows.
MITCH ALBOM There is a reason God limits our days.'
'Why?'
'To make each one precious.
MITCH ALBOM I think people expect too much from marriage today" he said. "They expect perfection. Every moment s...
MITCH ALBOM When you are measuring life, you are not living it.
MITCH ALBOM Sometimes, when you are not getting the love you want, giving makes you think you will.
MITCH ALBOM With endless time, nothing is special. With no loss or sacrifice, we can’t appreciate what we have
MITCH ALBOM Dying," Morrie suddenly said, "is the only one thing to be sad over, Mitch.
Living unhappily i...
MITCH ALBOM Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them.
MITCH ALBOM There is no experience like having children.’ That’s all. There is no substitute for it. You can...
MITCH ALBOM Had it not been for "Nightline," Morrie would have died without ever seeing me again. I had no good ...
MITCH ALBOM What happened to me? I asked myself.
Morris's high, smoky voice took me back to my university ...
MITCH ALBOM I wrote articles about rich athletes who, for the most part, could not care less about people like m...
MITCH ALBOM I had also developed my own culture. Work.
Over the years, I had taken labor as my companion a...
MITCH ALBOM Then he commandeered the floor, shooting back and forth like some hot Latin lover. When he finished,...
MITCH ALBOM No life is a waste. The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.
MITCH ALBOM You have to work at creating your own culture.
MITCH ALBOM Love lost is still love. It takes a different form, that’s all. You can’t see their smile or bri...
MITCH ALBOM Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever go...
MITCH ALBOM Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say.
MITCH ALBOM But a desperate heart will seduce the mind.
MITCH ALBOM Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.
MITCH ALBOM Everything man does today to be efficient, to fill the hour? It does not satisfy. It only makes him ...
MITCH ALBOM Knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.
MITCH ALBOM There was always a quest for more minutes, more hours, faster progress to accomplish more in each da...
MITCH ALBOM As mankind grew obsessed with its hours, the sorrow of lost time became a permanent hole in the huma...
MITCH ALBOM Soon man will count all his days, and then smaller segments of the day, and then smaller still—unt...
MITCH ALBOM But you grab a moment, or you let it pass.
MITCH ALBOM Sometimes, kids want you to hurt the way they hurt.
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MITCH ALBOM You should be convinced of the authenticity of what you have, but you must also be humble enough to ...
MITCH ALBOM Something is always happening somewhere.
MITCH ALBOM I bought this the day before at a shopping mall. I didn't want to forget him. Maybe I didn't want hi...
MITCH ALBOM I snicker, but the idea is momentarily appealing. Part of me is scared of leaving school. Part of me...
MITCH ALBOM It is too late."

The old man shook his head. "It is never too late or too soon. It is wh...
MITCH ALBOM What do people fear most about death? I asked the reb.
"Fear?" he thought for a moment. 'Well, ...
MITCH ALBOM Love- the infatuation kind- 'he's so handsome, she's so beautiful'- that can shrivel. As soon as som...
MITCH ALBOM So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half asleep, even when they're busy do...
MITCH ALBOM I took my orders, too. But if i couldn't keep you alive, I thought I could at least keep you togethe...
MITCH ALBOM And on a cold Sunday afternoon, he was joined in his home by a small group of friends and family for...
MITCH ALBOM And on a cold Sunday afternoon, he was joined in his home by a small group of friends and family for...
MITCH ALBOM What a waste.. All those people saying all those wonderful things, and Irv never got to hear any of ...
MITCH ALBOM You count the hours you could have spent with your mother, it's a lifetime in itself.
MITCH ALBOM As long as we can love each other, and remember the feeling of love we had, we can die without ever ...
MITCH ALBOM Taffy. He thinks about taffy. He thinks it would take his teeth out now, but he would eat it anyhow,...
MITCH ALBOM If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you ca...
MITCH ALBOM