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If an opportunity scares you, that's God's way of saying you should jump at it.

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Anna Quindlen
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 8
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Journalist
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Anna Marie Quindlen
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I think that we really fool ourselves about our ability to be safe and secure nowadays.
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One of the useful things about age is realizing conventional wisdom is often simply inertia with a candy coating of conformity.
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It's only before realities set in that we can treasure our delusions.
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February is a suitable month for dying. Everything around is dead, the trees black and frozen so that the appearance of green shoots two months hence seems preposterous, the ground hard and cold, the snow dirty, the winter hateful, hanging on too long.
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I'm very optimistic. I think if you would describe me, my pretty consistent affect is that I'm a pretty happy person.
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I've been a feminist since I was a teenager, but originally it was because I wanted to make the world a better place for me.
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Whether talking about addiction, taxation [on cigarettes] or education [about smoking], there is always at the center of the conversation an essential conundrum: How come we're selling this deadly stuff anyway?
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I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned that this is not a dress rehearsal, and that today is the only guarantee you get.
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I can't think of a single downside to motherhood now.
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When you leave college, there are thousands of people out there with the same degree you have when you get a job, there will be thousands of people doing what you want to do for a living. But you are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life.
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