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The less you talk, the more you're listened to.

Abigail Van Buren

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O, heavenly Father: we thank thee for food and remember the hungry. We thank thee for health and remember the sick. We thank thee for friends and remember the friendless. We thank thee for freedom and remember the enslaved. May these remembrances stir us to service, That thy gifts to us may be used for others. Amen.
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If you want a place in the sun, you have got to put up with a few blisters.
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I agree that marijuana laws are overdue for an overhaul. I also favor the medical use of marijuana -- if it's prescribed by a physician. I cannot understand why the federal government should interfere with the doctor-patient relationship, nor why it would ignore the will of a majority of voters who have legally approved such legislation.
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It is totally unconscionable to subject defenseless animals to mutilation and death, just so a company can be the first to market a new shade of nail polish or a new, improved laundry detergent. It's cruel, it's brutal, it's inhumane, and most people don't want it.
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It's true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
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People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.
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How should they answer?
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The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.
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Psychotherapy, unlike castor oil, which will work no matter how you get it down, is useless when forced on an uncooperative patient.
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A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
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You could move.' ---Dear Abby responds to a reader who complained that a gay couple was moving in across the street and wanted to know what he could do to improve the quality of the neighborhood.
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I can't think of a more potent combination than God and a good lawyer.
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If you are looking for a kindly, well-to-do older gentleman who is no longer interested in sex, take out an ad in The Wall Street Journal.
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True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
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SO the richest are often the poorest as this saying goes, Loneliness is the ultimate poverty
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