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The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.

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Mignon McLaughlin
Age: 70 †
Born: 1913
Born: June 6
Died: 1983
Died: December 20
Journalist
Writer
the United States of America
Would
Shock
Total
Almost
Anyone
Everyone
History

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Altruism is a hard master, but so is opportunism.
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The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.
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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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If I knew why I worried so much, I wouldn't worry.
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Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.
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Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.
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Many who would not take the last cookie would take the last lifeboat.
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Being neurotic is like shooting fish in a barrel, and missing them.
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It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily.
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Of all second-class citizens, neurotics are the only ones who are so by choice.
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You can't truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character.
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Vanity, revenge, loneliness, boredom, all apply: lust is one of the least of the reasons for promiscuity.
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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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A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.
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The neurotic feels as though trapped in a gas-filled room where at any moment someone, probably himself, will strike a match.
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I'm afraid to win, and afraid to lose I hate a draw and can't stop competing otherwise I'm fine.
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If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.
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