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I don't give advice. I can't tell anybody what to do. Instead I say this is what we know about this problem at this time. And here are the consequences of these actions.

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Joyce Brothers
Age: 85 †
Born: 1927
Born: October 20
Died: 2013
Died: May 13
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Brooklyn
New York
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The need to connect with one another intimately is what makes and keeps us human. The challenge throughout life is to find the courage to reach out to potential partners when our primary relationship ends and to recharge our tried-and-true unions when their sizzle starts to fizzle.
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Men have two basic needs. Neither of them, no matter what they say, is sex. They need love and they need work. And work takes priority over love. If a woman could know only one fact about men and work, it should be that work is the most seductive mistress most men ever have.
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A woman should never underestimate the power of the child in the man. Sometimes the child seems to be in the driver's seat at the very moment when all a man's adult judgment and insight is needed.
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No matter how lovesick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along!
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The topic of trust is an important factor in all matters of the heart - and here's why. Men lie to women. Women lie to men. And most people agree that some lying is even necessary - to avoid petty squabbles and to grease the wheels of a relationship.
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When you come right down to it, the secret to having it all is loving it all.
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Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence. They're willing to spend more time accomplishing a task and to persevere in the face of many difficult odds. There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it.
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The world at large does not judge us by who we are and what we know it judges us by what we have.
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In each of us there are places we have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them.
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My husband and I have never considered divorce... murder sometimes, but never divorce.
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Feeling gratitude isn't born in us-it's something we are taught, and in turn, we teach our children.
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Any man who watches more than three consecutive football games on TV in one day can be declared legally dead.
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When you forgive, you gain strength and come out a winner.
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Love, real love, is not simply a state of bliss. It is an ever-changing state, the result of time and emotional development, of trust and commitment.
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If you change nothing, nothing changes.
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The only people who don't make mistakes are the people who don't do anything.
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Before your dreams can come true, you have to have those dreams.
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Don't always try to be popular. It isn't possible for everyone to like you. It's far more important for you to like yourself. And when you respect yourself, strangely, you get more respect than when you court it from others.
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When success comes in the door, it seems, love often goes out the window.
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Marriages, like careers, need constant nurturing... the secret of having it all is loving it all.
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