Once you see the drivers in Indonesia you understand why religion plays such a part in their lives.
ERMA BOMBECKAs 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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Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
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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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The hippopotamus is a vegetarian and looks like a wall. Lions who eat only red meat are sleek and slim. Are nutritionists on the wrong track?
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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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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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Every puppy should have a boy.
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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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Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It’s unbridled, its unplanned, it’s full of suprises.
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Cats invented self-esteem.
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Pregnancy is the only time in a woman’s life she can help God work a miracle.
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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 you look like your passport photo, it’s time to go home.
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People usually survive their illnesses, but the paper work eventually does them in. Filing a claim for insurance is terminal.
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Friends are “annuals” that need seasonal nurturing to bear blossoms. Family is a “perennial” that comes up year after year, enduring the droughts of absence and neglect. There’s a place in the garden for both of them.
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Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.
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