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Mignon McLaughlin
Age: 70 †
Born: 1913
Born: June 6
Died: 1983
Died: December 20
Journalist
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the United States of America
Mankind
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Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health nothing is worse for your health than boredom.
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God is less careful than General Motors, for He floods the world with factory rejects.
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As we grow older, our capacity for enjoyment shrinks, but not our appetite for it.
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Every group feels strong once it has found a scapegoat.
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If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.
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In the theater, as in life, we prefer a villain with a sense of humor to a hero without one.
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You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages.
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The soul may sleep and the body still be happy, but only in youth.
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When threatened, the first thing a democracy gives up is democracy.
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With each passing year, one has less to say, and knows better how to say it.
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Failure can get to be a rather comfortable old friend.
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We climb mountains because they are there, and worship God because He is not.
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Others settle for small rewards the neurotic must always go for broke.
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The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.
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We have to call it freedom: who'd want to die for a lesser tyranny
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A woman's mink coat represents the sacrifice of a lot of little animals, including her husband.
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We choose those we like with those we love, we have no say in the matter.
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We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it.
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Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too surrounded by people who don't, you don't.
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What's for dinner is the only question many husbands ask their wives, and the only one to which they care about the answer.
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