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It seemed rather incongruous t...

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

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Volunteers are the only human ...

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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Cleaning the house while the c...

Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it's still snowing.

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It's the three pairs of eyes t...

It's the three pairs of eyes that mothers have to have...One pair that see through closed doors. Another in the back of her head...and, of course, the ones in front that can look at a child when he goofs up and reflect 'I understand and I love you' without so much as uttering a word.

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Not everyone is comfortable wi...

Not everyone is comfortable with the kissing ritual. My husband is one of them. Her refuses to press lips with anyone except his wife, mother, and dog. If someone wanted to give him mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, he would refuse until he had been formally introduced.

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Making coffee has become the g...

Making coffee has become the great compromise of the decade. It's the only thing 'real' men do that doesn't seem to threaten their masculinity. To women, it's on the same domestic entry level as putting the spring back into the toilet-tissue holder or taking a chicken out of the freezer to thaw.

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Dreams have only one owner at ...

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.

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I've decided life is too fragi...

I've decided life is too fragile to finish a book I dislike just because it cost $16.95 and everyone else loved it. Or eat a fried egg with a broken yolk (which I hate) when the dog would leap over the St. Louis Arch for it.

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Do I have to use my own money?...

Do I have to use my own money?

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The grass is always greener ov...

The grass is always greener over the septic tank.

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My idea of housework is to swe...

My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.

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I just clipped 2 articles from...

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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The art of never making a mist...

The art of never making a mistake is crucial to motherhood. To be effective and to gain the respect she needs to function, a mother must have her children believe she has never engaged in sex, never made a bad decision, never caused her own mother a moment's anxiety, and was never a child.

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You become about as exciting a...

You become about as exciting as your food blender. The kids come in, look you in the eye, and ask if anybody's home.

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Mothers are not the nameless, ...

Mothers are not the nameless, faceless stereotypes who appear once a year on a greeting card with their virtues set to prose, but women who have been dealt a hand for life and play each card one at a time the best way they know how. No mother is all good or all bad, all laughing or all serious, all loving or all angry. Ambivalence rushes through their veins.

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I do not participate in any sp...

I do not participate in any sport with ambulances at the bottom of the hill.

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Some emotions don't make a lot...

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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As a graduate of the Zsa Zsa G...

As a graduate of the Zsa Zsa Gabor School of Creative mathematics, I honestly do not know how old I am.

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Don't worry about who doesn't ...

Don't worry about who doesn't like you, who has more, or who's doing what.

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Housework can kill you if done...

Housework can kill you if done right.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....