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Lois Wyse
Age: 80 †
Born: 1926
Born: October 30
Died: 2007
Died: July 6
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Cleveland
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Corporations, being only human, make mistakes. Sometimes you may end up working for one of those mistakes.
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Briefcases, like CEOs, should never look new and unused.
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Love is a great glue, but there is no cement like mutual hate.
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Age becomes reality when you hear someone refer to that attractive young woman standing next to the woman in the green dress, and you find that you're the one in the green dress.
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there is no noise louder than a silent phone.
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I have a theory that since everyone is always dieting, no one at a convention dinner ever eats the potatoes. Therefore, they go back to the kitchen uneaten. And the next night they reappear at another convention. Therefore, one should never eat the potatoes. Who knows? They may be six or seven years old.
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Fear is born in uncertainty and nourished by pessimism.
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Power never takes two weeks off. Power takes long weekends.
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It was only long after the ceremony that we learned why we got married in the first place.
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Repeat nothing - absolutely nothing - that is told you in confidence. There is no such thing as telling just one person.
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A child who has a grandparent has a softened view of life, the feeling that there is more to life than what we see, more than getting and gaining, winning and losing.
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A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do.
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If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I'd have had them first.
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All friends are not for life, but if you have a true friend, you have a life.
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Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.
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A letter is never ill-timed it never interrupts. Instead it waits for us to find the opportune minute, the quiet moment to savor the message. There is an element of timelessness about letter writing.
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Grandmothers are to life what the Ph.D. is to education. There is nothing you can feel, taste, expect, predict, or want that the grandmothers in your family do not know about in detail.
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Don't ever take advice from anyone who starts a sentence with, 'You may not like me for this, but it's for your own good - ' It never is.
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Don't get so involved in the duties of your life and your children that you forget the pleasure. Remember why you had children.
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Men are taught to apologise for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.
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