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Friends with benefits? More than friends? Don't sample the goodies unless you're willing to risk addiction and withdrawal.
Ann Landers
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Ann Landers
Age: 83 †
Born: 1918
Born: July 4
Died: 2002
Died: June 22
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Sioux City
Iowa
Ann Landers
Esther Pauline Friedman
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People have one year after the wedding to send a gift. Thank-you notes must be written immediately. If you don't receive an acknowledgment within three months, phone and ask if it was received. If the bride and groom are embarrassed, fine. They deserve to be.
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Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say “I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.” Then repeat to yourself the most comforting of all words , “This too shall pass.”
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If you want your children to listen, try talking softly - to someone else.
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Nobody says you must laugh, but a sense of humor can help you overlook the unattractive, tolerate the unpleasant, cope with the unexpected, and smile through the day.
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guilt is a pollutant and we don't need any more of it in the world.
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No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence.
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The best way to find something you have lost is to buy a replacement.
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Don't indulge in gossip. ... People who throw mudballs always manage to end up getting a little on themselves.
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When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate.
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Don't give up. Keep going. there is always a chance that you stumble onto something terrific. I have never heard of anyone stumbling over anything while he was sitting down
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