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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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Most of us would be willing to pay as we go if we could just finish paying for where we've been.
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Bragging is not an attractive trait, but let's be honest. A man who catches a big fish doesn't go home through an alley.
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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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Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.
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It's one of the ironies of human nature that the most sensitive people are generally insensitive to the feelings of others.
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Problems are inevitable. Misery is a choice.
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Love is content with the present, it hopes for the future and it doesn't brood over the past.
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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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Marriage is not a reform school.
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An open marriage is nature's way of telling you that you need a divorce.
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No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence.
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It is a mark of a superior mind to be able to disagree without being disagreeable.
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All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.
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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.
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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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All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love.
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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.
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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 is the art of living in peace with that which cannot be changed, the courage to change that which should be changed, no matter what it takes, and the wisdom to know the difference.
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A successful marriage is not a gift it is an achievement.
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