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Grown-up people can wait.

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Ann Landers
Age: 83 †
Born: 1918
Born: July 4
Died: 2002
Died: June 22
Columnist
Journalist
Writer
Sioux City
Iowa
Ann Landers
Esther Pauline Friedman
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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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One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closest friends if they seem OK, then you're the one.
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What we steadily, consciously, habitually think we are, that we tend to become.
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guilt is a pollutant and we don't need any more of it in the world.
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The adult who is constantly changing friends and changing mates is immature. He/she cannot stick it out because he/she has not grown up.
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Wake up and smell the coffee.
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If you have a good name, if you are right more often than you are wrong, if your children respect you, if your grandchildren are glad to see you, if your friends can count on you and you can count on them in time of trouble, if you can face your God and say I have done my best, then you are a success.
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Let this coming year be better than all the others. Vow to do some of the things you've always wanted to do but couldn't find the time.
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Friends with benefits? More than friends? Don't sample the goodies unless you're willing to risk addiction and withdrawal.
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Problems are inevitable. Misery is a choice.
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Pity the poor millionaire. He'll never know the thrill of paying that final installment.
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I don't believe that you have to be a cow to know what milk is.
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A happy marriage has the tranquility of a lovely sunset.
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TV has had a stronger impact on our society than any single invention since the automobile. It has put the dead hand on conversation.
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The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.
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Inside every seventy-year-old is a thirty-five-year-old asking, 'What happened?
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Class never tries to build itself up by tearing others down. Class is already up and need not strive to look better by making others look worse.
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Some things get better with age, but after a certain point, the mind isn't among them.
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Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised.
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All marriages are happy, it's living together afterward that's tough.
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