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So much of what you take for granted is the bedrock of happiness.
Anna Quindlen
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Anna Quindlen
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 8
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Anna Marie Quindlen
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An election marks the end of the affair it puts paid to the seduction of the many by the few. Pretty words, fulsome promises. We wind up married, but to whom, to what? We cannot always predict with certainty the future leader from the winning candidate. Some men grow in the job others are diminished by its demands and its grandeur.
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All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough.
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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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