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Being interested is more important than being interesting.

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Ann Landers
Age: 83 †
Born: 1918
Born: July 4
Died: 2002
Died: June 22
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Journalist
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Sioux City
Iowa
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Esther Pauline Friedman
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Some women have the best husbands. Others make the best of the husbands they have.
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You're all you've got.
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A man spends the first half of his life learning habits that shorten the other half.
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Anyone who believes the competitive spirit in America is dead has never been in a supermarket when the cashier opens another check-out line.
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No person ever died by drowning in their own sweat.
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Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
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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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Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.
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The real question is why are millions of people so unhappy, so bored, so unfulfilled, that they are willing to drink, snort, inject or inhale any substance that might blot out reality and give them a bit of temporary relief.
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Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley.
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An open marriage is nature's way of telling you that you need a divorce.
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A husband is a man who wishes he had as much fun when he goes on business trips as his wife thinks he does.
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The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.
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Warmth, kindness, and friendship are the most yearned for commodities in the world. The person who can provide them will never be lonely.
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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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Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
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