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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

The grass is always greener over the septic tank.
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When you’re lecturing teenagers and they begin to hum and leave the room, you can sense there is hostility.
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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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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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Pregnancy is the only time in a woman’s life she can help God work a miracle.
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Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
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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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Children make your life important.
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My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.
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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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When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
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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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If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.
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Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
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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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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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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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