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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.

Erma Bombeck

I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.
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Discover Myself Science Worry
I was trampled to death by a man who believed his luggage would be the first piece off. If he were an experienced traveler, he would know that the first piece of luggage belongs to no one. It’s just a dummy suitcase to give everyone hope.
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Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.
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There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
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All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
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For years, my husband and I have advocated separate vacations. But the kids keep finding us.
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When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out.
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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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A grandparent will help you with your buttons, your zippers, and your shoelaces and not be in any hurry for you to grow up.
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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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One never realizes how different a husband and wife can be until they begin to pack for a trip.
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Children make your life important.
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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
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No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.
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Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.
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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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