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When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‘I used everything you gave me’.

Erma Bombeck

Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
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If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.
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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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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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A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.
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Every puppy should have a boy.
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There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
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When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
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One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child’s name and how old he or she is.
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All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
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I was trampled to death by a man who believed his luggage would be the first piece off. If he were an experienced traveler, he would know that the first piece of luggage belongs to no one. It’s just a dummy suitcase to give everyone hope.
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Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?
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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
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Kids need love the most when they’re acting most unlovable.
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As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her.
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It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.
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When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‘I used everything you gave me’.

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When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‘I used everything you gave me’.

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