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Know the difference between success and fame. Success is Mother Teresa. Fame is Madonna.

Erma Bombeck

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Erma Bombeck
Age: 69 †
Born: 1927
Born: February 21
Died: 1996
Died: April 22
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Journalist
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Bellbrook
Ohio
Erma Louise Bombeck
Fame
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Differences
Success
Mother
Teresa
Madonna

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Grandparenthood is one of life's rewards for surviving your own children.
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I don't think women outlive men, Doctor. It only seems longer.
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I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.
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Parenting is a negative thing. Keep your children from killing themselves, or anyone else, and hope for the best.
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not all bears have their own television series. Some of them are unemployed wild animals.
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You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.
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I have a friend who lives by a three-word philosophy: Seize the Moment. Just possibly, she may be the wisest woman on this planet.
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What we're really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving?
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Family life got better and we got our car back - as soon as we put 'I love Mom' on the license plate.
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I don't know when pepper mills in a restaurant got to be right behind frankincense and myrrh in prominence. It used to be in a little jar that sat next to the salt on the table and everyone passed it around, sneezed, and it was no big deal.
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A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
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I love my mother for all the times she said absolutely nothing.... Thinking back on it all, it must have been the most difficult part of mothering she ever had to do: knowing the outcome, yet feeling she had no right to keep me from charting my own path. I thank her for all her virtues, but mostly for never once having said, I told you so.
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House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad.
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If I had my life to live over, instead of wishing away nine months of pregnancy, I'd have cherished ever moment and realized that the wonderment growing inside me was the only chance in life to assist God in a miracle.
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When children reach the age of sixteen, they discover the meaning of life: car keys.
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