By default, most of us have taken the dare to simply survive. Exist. Get through. For the most part, we live numb to life - we've grown weary and apathetic and jaded... and wounded.


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ANN LANDERS
I have learned that there is more power in a good strong hug than in a thousand meaningful words.
ANN HOOD
On the campaign, I've had the privilege of advocating for important issues that affect all women...
ANN CALLIS
Multiple Sclerosis is obviously close to my heart and I'm determined to make a difference in the...
ANN ROMNEY
I advise keeping four feet on the floor and all hands on deck.
ANN LANDERS
Any Republican who says he can work with Hillary Clinton is a traitor to the nation.
ANN COULTER
Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without hav...
ANN LANDERS
I just feel like I'm a very lucky person to have a new life outside of politics.
ANN RICHARDS
Be greedy for social change, and your life will be endlessly enriched. The only failure lies in not ...
ANN COTTON
And I cannot tell you how much I appreciate that because the days are long, the road is hard, the tr...
ANN ROMNEY
Sometimes when I'm watching television and something, an image, will come on that has to do with...
ANN RICHARDS
'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell' by Susanna Clarke is a big, thick book. About a thousan...
ANN LECKIE
I've been in this business for a long time, and I no longer think that anything that I do by way...
ANN BEATTIE
Katana is a trained, disciplined martial artist. She removes herself from Birds of Prey to go on a p...
ANN NOCENTI
You didn't have to go on location if you could just shoot down City Hall, LA.
ANN ROBINSON
We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren'...
ANN COULTER
Liberals are stalwart defenders of civil liberties - provided we're only talking about criminals...
ANN COULTER
I have leveled with the girls - from Anchorage to Amarillo.
I tell them that all marriages are ...
ANN LANDERS
What liberals mean by 'goose-stepping' or 'ethnic cleansing' is generally something ...
ANN COULTER
Occasionally, I hear grumbles about everything being a series or a trilogy, but apart from the quest...
ANN LECKIE
For love to flourish there has to be trust. Promises don’t matter as much as
personal choice.
ANN AGUIRRE
Lena wished that love were something you could flip on and off. You could turn it on when you felt g...
ANN BRASHARES
Build into each budget the cost of hiring and don't lump yourself with capital investment.
ANN MACBETH
I know for certain people I'm championing a struggle that they're going through.
ANN ROMNEY
Shetland's influences are far more Scandinavian than Celtic.
ANN CLEEVES
The critics had an image of me, and they wouldn't accept any other... I was a cartoon character....
ANN-MARGRET
Four years of Jimmy Carter gave us two titanic Reagan landslides, peace and prosperity for eight ble...
ANN COULTER
Black is not sad. Bright colors are what depresses me. They’re so… empty. Black is poetic. How d...
ANN DEMEULEMEESTER
The exclusion of girls from education is an issue of justice. But it's also an issue of economic...
ANN COTTON
It is in this spirit of community that we have decided to forego this traditional celebration at thi...
ANN SNYDER
A very special thanks to all these organizations. They quickly responded to a sudden and pressing ne...
ANN SNYDER
Under the extraordinary leadership of Carol Mitchener, all of our staff members have banded together...
ANN SNYDER