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I have found in work that you only get back what you put into it, but it does come back gift-wrapped.

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Joyce Brothers
Age: 85 †
Born: 1927
Born: October 20
Died: 2013
Died: May 13
Actor
Columnist
Journalist
Psychologist
Television Presenter
Brooklyn
New York
Joyce Diane Bauer
Joyce Bauer
Joyce Diane Brothers
Doe
Back
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Work
Wrapped
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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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When you forgive, you gain strength and come out a winner.
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The simple but observable fact is that the more you love, the more you are able to love.
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Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
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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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When success comes in the door, it seems, love often goes out the window.
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No matter how much pressure you feel at work, if you could find ways to relax for at least five minutes every hour, you’d be more productive.
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As a celebrity, you get a certain number of free passes. You're actually in a better position if you're a celebrity because people care.
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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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I don't believe in luck. We make our own good fortune.
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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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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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Whatever a man thinks about sex, you can be sure that he thinks about sex almost constantly.
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Some men are self-made, but most are the revised work of a wife and children.
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