"Now I'll give you some advice, since you been asking for it. Happiness is like them plants you been yapping about. Sometimes it's growing right in your own backyard and you don't even know it."

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Cathie Pelletier

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“All change brings bad things and good things to replace the bad and good things that were before. It is natural to look back and say it was better beforeâ€”but that does not make it true. Different is not worse. It is just different.”
“American families, families back home in Minnesota, know only too well that out-of-pocket expenses for health care have been rising at an astonishing rate.”
“We [women] are the majority of the population, majority of the electorate, majority of the workforce... and yet we're still doing majority of family unpaid or low paid labor. And we live longer. Our stuff is not "special interest" stuff. Our stuff is the stuff of the future, of the whole.”
“Nietzsche said that the earth has been a madhouse long enough. Without contradicting him we might perhaps soften the expression, and say that philosophy has been long enough an asylum for enthusiasts.”
“Gossip is never fatal until it is denied.”

Source : Booth Tarkington (2013). “The Essential Booth Tarkington Collection”, p.2177, eBookIt.com
“I definitely have a family. I have a boyfriend who has kids, and we do normal things every day, like get up and go to school. Eat breakfast, lunch and dinner.”
“And still the time, especially in the economy, is very tough, very difficult. It's necessary to be active still, to work, to fight, to make our economy more competitive.”

Source : "Emerging Ally: President of Poland, Aleksander Kwasniewski". "PBS NewsHour" with Ray Suarez, www.pbs.org. July 18, 2002.
“I started recording because I was always complaining about the records that I was getting of my songs. At least if I did them and messed them up, I wouldn't have anyone else to blame.”

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