| Young lovers and young nations face the same problem: after orgasm, what? |
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| Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway. |
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| Most of us can easily do two things at once; what's all but impossible is to do one thing at once. |
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- Mignon McLaughlin |
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| We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it. |
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- Mignon McLaughlin |
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| We have to call it "freedom": who'd want to die for "a lesser tyranny"? |
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- Mignon McLaughlin |
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| It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to the friendship that we are not. |
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- Mignon McLaughlin |
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| We are keenly aware of the faults of our friends, but if they like us enough it doesn't matter. |
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- Mignon McLaughlin |
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| In church, sacred music would make believers of us all - but preachers can be counted on to restore the balance. |
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- Mignon McLaughlin |
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| Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product. |
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- Mignon McLaughlin |
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| My religious position: I think that God could do a lot better, and I'm willing to give Him the chance. |
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- Mignon McLaughlin |
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| There's something in every atheist, itching to believe, and something in every believer, itching to doubt. |
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- Mignon McLaughlin |
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| Acedia is not in every dictionary; just in every heart. |
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- Mignon McLaughlin |
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| God doesn't measure His bounty, but oh how we do! |
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- Mignon McLaughlin |
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| God is less careful than General Motors, for He floods the world with factory rejects. |
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- Mignon McLaughlin |
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| People are like birds: on the wing, all beautiful; up close, all beady little eyes. |
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- Mignon McLaughlin |
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| Few of us could bear to have ourselves for neighbors. |
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- Mignon McLaughlin |
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| When women feel they have learned to forgive their mothers - and men, their fathers - all it usually means is that they've decided to allow themselves the same kind of behavior. |
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- Mignon McLaughlin |
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| "Your money, or your life." We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God does. |
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- Mignon McLaughlin |
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| A woman's mink coat represents the sacrifice of a lot of little animals, including her husband. |
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- Mignon McLaughlin |
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| I wish I'd said it first, and I don't even know who did: The only problems that money can solve are money problems. |
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- Mignon McLaughlin |
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