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A man spends the first half of his life learning habits that shorten the other half.

Ann Landers

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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
Habits
Habit
Learning
Half
Firsts
First
Men
Shorten
Life
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An open marriage is nature's way of telling you that you need a divorce.
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Keep skid chains on your tongue. Say less than you think. Cultivate a pleasant voice. How you say it is often more important than what you say.
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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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No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence.
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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 perseverance-the ability to sweat out a project or a situation, in spite of heavy opposition and discouraging setbacks, and stick with it until it is finished.
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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 live in peace with that which we cannot change.
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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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It is a mark of a superior mind to be able to disagree without being disagreeable.
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Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.
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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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Friends with benefits? More than friends? Don't sample the goodies unless you're willing to risk addiction and withdrawal.
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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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If you want your children to listen, try talking softly - to someone else.
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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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