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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.

Barbara Walters

Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.
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Children Enchant Parents Willing Young
Most old people … are disheartened to be living in the ailing house of their bodies, to be limited physically and economically, to feel an encumbrance to others – guests who didn’t have the good manners to leave when the party was over.
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House Party People
New York is a galaxy of adventure at once elegant, exciting and bizarre. It’s a city that moves so fast, it takes energy just to stand still.
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Adventure Children Energy Fast Galaxy Stand
Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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New Party Person Shallow Year
I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn’t pronounce my R’s. I wasn’t a beauty.
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Achievement Boston Kind
Every genius I have met could be classified as crazy by most people. They possess the highest level of sanity that us people find difficult to understand and accept.
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Crazy Genius People
If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
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Dead Drop Gorgeous Kind Tree
For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
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Interview Man Talk
Life sometimes brings enormous difficulties and challenges that seem just too hard to bear. But bear them you can, and bear them you will, and your life can have a purpose.
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Bears Challenges Purpose
Small children do not belong at an adult party, and especially should not be used like trained midgets to help serve martinis.
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Adults Children Party
Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.
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Complaining Fighting Jobs
For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth.
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Earth Education Freedom Literacy Nation Start
But for Muslims, everything that they don’t have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise.
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Drink Earth Heaven Paradise Pleasure Sex Yourself
A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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Approval Made Men
Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna – or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.
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Nice Success Women
Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
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Gossip People Relationship

I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.

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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.

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