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If you want your children to listen, try talking softly - to someone else.
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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
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Esther Pauline Friedman
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Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
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If at first you do succeed, try something harder.
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People who care about each other enjoy doing things for one another. They don't consider it servitude.
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Being interested is more important than being interesting.
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Maturity isn't a product of growing older. It's a product of growing wiser.
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Maturity is the ability to harness your abilities and your energies and do more than is expected. The mature person refuses to settle for mediocrity. He/she would rather aim high and miss the mark than low-and make it.
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There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.
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Find comfort in the knowledge that no imitator ever comes off as well as the original.
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If you want to catch trout, don't fish in a herring barrel.
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People of integrity expect to be believed. They also know time will prove them right and are willing to wait.
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If criticism is needed, do it tactfully. Don't use a sledgehammer when a fly swatter will do the job.
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One of the best ways to measure people is how they behave when something free is offered.
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The real trick is to stay alive as long as you live.
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If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don't have love in your life, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.
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Some people take pleasure in regaling one and all with details of their poor health. They are happy to give an organ recital to anyone who will listen.
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In the end, it's not what you do for your children but what you've taught them to do for themselves.
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What the majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis, it is not what you do for you children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.
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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.
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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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