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Anyone who thinks he's too small to make a difference has never been bit by a mosquito

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Jeannette Walls
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: April 21
Journalist
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When someone's wounded, the first order of business is to stop the bleeding. You can figure out later how best to help them heal.
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It's really not that hard to put food on the table if that's what you decide to do.
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God deals us all different hands. How we play 'em is up to us.
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I'm a big believer in luck - the harder you work, the luckier you become.
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We laughed about all the kids who believed in the Santa Clause myth and got nothing but a bunch of cheap plastic toys. 'Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten,' Dad said, ' you'll still have your stars.
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We're stronger than we realize.
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Look at the way you live. You've sold out. Next thing I know you'll become a Republican. She shook her head. Where are the values I raised you with?
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Too much hard luck can create a permanent meanness of spirit in any creature.
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Life's too short to care about what other people think. Besides, they should accept us for who we are
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Maybe I should have cut him some slack. With his broken wing and lifetime of eating roadkill, he probably had a lot to be ungrateful about. Too much hard luck can create a permanent meanness of spirit in any creature.
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You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.
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What I do know is that wondering why you survived don't help you survive.
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You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.
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Mom always said people worried too much about their children. Suffering when you're young is good for you, she said. It immunized your body and your soul, and that was why she ignored us kids when we cried. Fussing over children who cry only encouraged them, she told us. That's positive reinforcement for negative behavior.
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...even though I was getting better education at home than any of the kids in Toyah, I'd need to go to finishing school when I was thirteen, both to acquire social graces and to earn a diploma. Because in this world, Dad said, it's not enough to have a fine education. You need a piece of paper to prove you go it.
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