Baseball's Opening Day is full of time-honored traditions: the President throws out the first ball, the Cubs' starting … - Rob Sheffield

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Everyone wants to be financially secure, the problem is most people focus on "getting by" when they need to be focused on "getting rich. "

Rob Sheffield

Baseball's Opening Day is full of time-honored traditions: the President throws out the first ball, the Cubs' starting pitcher walks away with a 54. 00 ERA, the Royals get mathematically eliminated from the pennant race.

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When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other.

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The times you lived through, the people you shared those times with — nothing brings it all to life like an old mix tape. It does a better job of storing up memories than actual brain tissue can do. Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they can add up to the story of a life.

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But bringing people together is what music has always done best.

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If all music did was bring the past alive, that would be fine. You can hide away in music and let it recapture memories of things that used to be. But music is greedy and it wants more of your heart than that. It demands the future, your future. Music wants the rest of your life. So you can't rest easy. At any moment, a song can come out of nowhere to shake you up, jump-start your emotions, ruin your life.

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Our lives were just beginning, our favorite moment was right now, our favorite songs were unwritten.

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My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family's subscription to the newspaper I was working on, because she was so mad about its treatment of my father.

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When the soul is ruffled by the remains of one passion, it is more disposed to entertain a new one than when it is entirely curedand at rest from all.

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