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"Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door."
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"But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children."
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"The fact that the Prophet cared for every human being and tried his best to ensure their security in the hereafter must be the most telling of his compassionate and merciful characteristics."
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"Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something."
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"You're better off being a brick layer if you're going to play guitar than a sheet metal worker."
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"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."
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"Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained."
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"I'm sensitive about my image of being hard to reach."
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"Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position."
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"Being comfortable isn't the way to learn to expand your abilities."
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"A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame."
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"Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires."
Family
"Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves."
Children
"If at first you don't succeed, blame your parents."
Blame
"No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent."
Character
"One sure way to lose another woman's friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements."
Friendship
"The quickest way to know a woman is to go shopping with her."
Woman
"A vacation frequently means that the family goes away for a rest, accompanied by a mother who sees that the others get it."
Family
"Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans."
Gardening
"Life begins when a person first realizes how soon it will end."
Life
"A sparkling house is a fine thing if the children aren't robbed of their luster in keeping it that way."
Children
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