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Good kids are like sunsets. We take them for granted. Every evening they disappear. Most parents never imagine how hard they try to please us, and how miserable they feel when they think they have failed.

Erma Bombeck

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
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Death Game Himself Legal Man
I remember thinking how often we look, but never see … we listen, but never hear … we exist, but never feel. We take our relationships for granted. A house is only a place. It has no life of its own. It needs human voices, activity and laughter to come alive.
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Alive Existence Feeling Laughter Life Listen Myself Place Remember See Thinking Voice
Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.
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Children Encouragement Independence Lose
My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
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Home Ideas Myself See Work
Time. It hangs heavy for the bored, eludes the busy, flies by the for young, and runs out for the aged.
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Age Run Time Young
I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.
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Discover Myself Science Worry
Grandparenthood is one of life’s rewards for surviving your own children.
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Children Funny Parents Reward Survive
When humor goes, there goes civilization.
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Civilization Humor Loss
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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Age Eye Kind Memories Old Perspective Thinking
I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.
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Clothes Live Luck Myself Society
Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?
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Funny Pieces Travel Yourself
People usually survive their illnesses, but the paper work eventually does them in. Filing a claim for insurance is terminal.
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Doctor Funny Humor People Survive Money
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
My theory on housework is, if the item doesn’t multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?
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Care Home Myself Theory Work Yourself
If I had my life to live over, instead of wishing away nine months of pregnancy, I’d have cherished ever moment and realized that the wonderment growing inside me was the only chance in life to assist God in a miracle.
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Chance God Growth Life Magic Moments Myself Pregnant
Once you see the drivers in Indonesia you understand why religion plays such a part in their lives.
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Live Play Religious See Travel Understand Yourself

Good kids are like sunsets. We take them for granted. Every evening they disappear. Most parents never imagine how hard they try to please us, and how miserable they feel when they think they have failed.

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Good kids are like sunsets. We take them for granted. Every evening they disappear. Most parents never imagine how hard they try to please us, and how miserable they feel when they think they have failed.

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