All these people that you ...

All these people that you meet or I meet, there\'s not a prayer in hell that they\'re ever going to run for office or major office because if they\'re that smart, they\'re also smart enough to know they don\'t want to take everything that they\'ve built up and have it torn apart by a sensationalized media that\'s so hungry for any kind of salacious detail that they\'ll make that the emphasis of the person\'s life. And then all of sudden, 50, 60 years of hard work and accomplishment go out the window.
All these people that you meet or I meet, there's not a prayer in hell that they're ever going to run for office or major office because if they're that smart, they're also smart enough to know they don't want to take everything that they've built up and have it torn apart by a sensationalized media that's so hungry for any kind of salacious detail that they'll make that the emphasis of the person's life. And then all of sudden, 50, 60 years of hard work and accomplishment go out the window.
 Mitch Albom

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My mother was French Protestant, and my father was Italian Catholic, and their union was an excess of God, guilt and sauce.
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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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I believe he died this way on purpose. I believe he wanted no chilling moments, no one to witness his last breath and be haunted by it, the way he had been haunted by his mother's death-notice telegram or by his father's corpse in the city morgue.
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A child embarrassed by his mother, she said, is just a child who hasn’t lived long enough.
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Sacrifice is a part of life. It’s supposed to be. It’s not something to regret. It’s something to aspire to. Little sacrifices. Big sacrifices. A mother works so her son can go to school. A daughter moves home to take care of her sick father.
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 Mitch Albom