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President Obama had two Supreme Court nominees in his first term. There was no filibuster against them.


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MITCH ALBOM My jaw dropped, ... I felt shame that I had to find out over the television, then felt sorrow and a ...
MITCH ALBOM Since everyone was going to die, he could be of great value, right? ... He could be research. A huma...
MITCH ALBOM You're not a wave, you're a part of the ocean.
MITCH ALBOM A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention with the possible exceptions ...
MITCH RATCLIFFE Learn this from me. Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a we...
MITCH ALBOM You can’t substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense o...
MITCH ALBOM Now you know how badly someone wanted you, Charley. Children forget that sometimes. They think of th...
MITCH ALBOM Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.
MITCH ALBOM You see, you closed your eyes. That was the difference. Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, y...
MITCH ALBOM But she wasn’t around, and that’s the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of goin...
MITCH ALBOM I drive a beat-up Mercury Cougar, with the windows down and the music up. I seek my identity in toug...
MITCH ALBOM So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy do...
MITCH ALBOM All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prin...
MITCH ALBOM But there's a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Som...
MITCH ALBOM Death ends a life, not a relationship.
MITCH ALBOM Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all. You can't see their smile or bring t...
MITCH ALBOM The reason kids like rock 'n roll is their parents don't.
MITCH MILLER A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possibl...
MITCH RATLIFFE Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that
MITCH ALBOM Time is not what you think. Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on ea...
MITCH ALBOM People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our econ...
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