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It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.

Erma Bombeck

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
Every puppy should have a boy.
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Animal Boy Company Dog Friendship
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
If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.
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Inspirational Laughter Yourself
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
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
My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.
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Bed Boredom Family Mom Myself
Some emotions don’t make a lot of noise. It’s hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint – like a heartbeat. And pure love – why, some days it’s so quiet, you don’t even know it’s there.
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Care Deep Emotion Funny Hard Love Pride Quiet Reality Yourself
Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.
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Design Fashion Human Literature Myself
How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?
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Buy Fate Funny Price Yourself
As 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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Believe Book Children Friendship Herself Library Myself
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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Evening Failure Feeling Goodness Misery Sun
The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one.
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Food Funny Life
There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
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Gift Morning Sad Spiritual Wake Up World
When humor goes, there goes civilization.
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Civilization Humor Loss
Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
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Home Result Stop Work

It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.

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