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There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

Erma Bombeck

Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation’s compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain love for one another.
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Care Compassion Each Other Face Human Love Nation Patience Reflection
Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
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Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.
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Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn’t even in the same neighborhood. No one has ever gotten a religious experience out of removing burned-on cheese from the grill of the toaster oven.
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Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
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Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage.
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My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.
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Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
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Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.
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A grandparent will help you with your buttons, your zippers, and your shoelaces and not be in any hurry for you to grow up.
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I got to thinking one day about all those women on the Titanic who passed up dessert at dinner that fateful night.
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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
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Maybe age is kinder to us than we think. With my bad eyes, I can’t see how bad I look, and with my rotten memory, I have a good excuse for getting out of a lot of stuff.
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My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
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Some emotions don’t make a lot of noise. It’s hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint – like a heartbeat. And pure love – why, some days it’s so quiet, you don’t even know it’s there.
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If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.
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