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My favourite actors are all dead or dying. I just love Jimmy Stewart, Bette Davis, Katharine Hepburn - I was named after her - and Cary Grant. I just love old black and white movies and the stars in them. It must have been a great time to be in Hollywood.
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Retirement is a work in progress. I try to figure out my day, and what I know about myself is that I need structure.
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Mere communion with nature, mere contact with the free air, exercise a soothing yet comforting and strengthening influence on the wearied mind, calm the storm of passion, and soften the heart when shaken by sorrow to its inmost depths.
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Happiness and love are just a choice away.
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Any veteran can tell you it is already hard enough to see a doctor down at the VA and get the health care they were promised when they signed up to serve this country.
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It is of note that for a long time moral nihilism was a kind of unquestioned default position in analytic moral philosophy.
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God is still in the process of dispensing gifts, and He uses ordinary individuals like us to develop those gifts in other people
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I find it really offensive when people say that the emotional experiences of teenagers are less real or less important than those of adults. I am an adult, and I used to be a teenager, and so I can tell you with some authority that my feelings then were as real as my feelings are now.
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Scurrility has no object in view but incivility; if it is uttered from feelings of petulance, it is mere abuse; if it is spoken in a joking manner, it may be considered raillery.
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The fact is that heterosexual sex for most people is in no way free of the power relations between men and women.
