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I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth.
Mignon McLaughlin
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Mignon McLaughlin
Age: 70 †
Born: 1913
Born: June 6
Died: 1983
Died: December 20
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Don't look for God where He is needed most if you didn't bring Him there, He isn't there.
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Neurotics make poor patriots if you're ashamed of something as big as yourself, it's hard to be proud of something as small as your country.
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If there is something you must do and you cannot do it, you cannot do anything else.
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The neurotic believes that life has meaning, but that his life hasn't.
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In retrospect, our triumphs could as easily have happened to someone else but our defeats are uniquely our own.
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When women feel they have learned to forgive their mothers - and men, their fathers - all it usually means is that they've decided to allow themselves the same kind of behavior.
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The soul may sleep and the body still be happy, but only in youth.
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Your money, or your life. We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God does.
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It does not undo harm to acknowledge that we have done it but it undoes us not to acknowledge it.
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Women are good listeners, but it's a waste of time telling your troubles to a man unless there's something specific you want him to do.
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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
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Things are never so bad that they can't get worse. But they're sometimes so bad they can't get better.
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Every group feels strong once it has found a scapegoat.
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If you jot down every silly thought that pops into your mind, you will soon find out everything you most seriously believe.
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The fault we admit to is seldom the fault we have, but it has a certain relationship to it, a somewhat similar shape, like that of a sleeve to an arm.
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Many who would not take the last cookie would take the last lifeboat.
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We cough because we can't help it, but others do it on purpose.
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