"There's an old Southern saying that if you're worried about your weight, clothes, or getting old, then you don't have any real problems."

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Source : Amy Hill Hearth (2012). “Miss Dreamsville and the Collier County Women's Literary Society: A Novel”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

Amy Hill Hearth

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“To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.”
“As a Palestinian today I speak of a Palestinian and Arab demand for a state on 1967 borders. It is true that in reality there will be an entity or state called Israel on the rest of Palestinian land. This is a reality, but I won't deal with it in terms of recognising or admitting it.”

Source : "Q&A with Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal". Reuters Intervie, www.reuters.com. January 21, 2007.
“But if used for retribution, magic is vengeance incarnate.”
“The best love affairs are those we never had.”
“What is the one bright spot on the entire horizon that would give someone an opportunity to be retrained to learn new skills? Direct selling.”
“Remember, there are no cuts to Medicaid. Every year in Medicaid, you spend more money than you spent the year before under this plan, but the growth is not as great as it would be if you continued to pay, for instance, 100 percent for single able-bodied adults. Now, there is something wrong with the way that system is put together.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“The Eucharist is a fire that inflames us, that, like lions breathing fire, we may retire from the altar being made terrible to the devil.”
“The success of any change depends, in large measure, on your attitude about that change.”

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