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Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage.

Erma Bombeck

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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I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.
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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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Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage.
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No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.
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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
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I just clipped 2 articles from a current magazine. One is a diet guaranteed to drop 5 pounds off my body in a weekend. The other is a recipe for a 6 minute pecan pie.
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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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When humor goes, there goes civilization.
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If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.
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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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Pregnancy is the only time in a woman’s life she can help God work a miracle.
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There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
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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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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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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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