The purpose of life is to amount to something and have it make some difference that you lived at all.
ABIGAIL VAN BURENIt is totally unconscionable to subject defenseless animals to mutilation and death, just so a company can be the first to market a new shade of nail polish or a new, improved laundry detergent. It’s cruel, it’s brutal, it’s inhumane, and most people don’t want it.
More Abigail Van Buren Quotes
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Wisdom doesn’t automatically come with old age. Nothing does – except wrinkles. It’s true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
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True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
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The lack of faith is not doubt. It is certainty.
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The best index to a person’s character is how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and how he treats people who can’t fight back.
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So the richest are often the poorest as this saying goes, “Loneliness is the ultimate poverty”
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Accept every blind date you can get, even with a girl who wears jeans. Maybe you can talk her out of them.
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A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
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There is no end to the undeserved misery and mischief it could create.
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Believing that the dream of freedom, brotherhood, and peace for all mankind will someday come true.
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So yesterday you fell off the wagon? Or maybe you blew your diet? Or lost your temper and shot off your mouth? Well, that was yesterday. Today is a brand-new day with a clean slate, so forget yesterday!
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Love is what enables us to bridge the gap of disappointment when others don’t live up to the expectations we have of them.
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You are what you are when nobody is looking.
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Kissing power is stronger than will power.
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Many husbands today pitch in to help with household chores – it’s called partnership.
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It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can’t speak for my twin sister.
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