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Most people can’t stomach silence; it provides too much opportunity to think about things they prefer to avoid.


Ann Aguirre

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ANN LANDERS The real question is why are millions of people so unhappy, so bored, so unfulfilled, that they are ...
ANN LANDERS Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.
ANN OAKLEY One out of four people in this country is mentally imbalanced. Think of your three closest friends. ...
ANN LANDERS At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The t...
ANN LANDERS The primary function of myth is to validate an existing social order. Myth enshrines conservative so...
ANN OAKLEY Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.
ANN OAKLEY Bragging is not an attractive trait, but let's be honest. A man who catches a big fish doesn't go ho...
ANN LANDERS Let us keep Christmas beautiful Without a thought of greed, That it might live forevermore To fill o...
ANN SCHULTZ It seems to me that the problem with diaries, and the reason that most of them are so boring, is tha...
ANN BEATTIE If you marry a man who cheats on his wife, you'll be married to a man who cheats on his wife.
ANN LANDERS Bragging is not an attractive trait, but let's be honest. A man who catches a big fish doesn't go h...
ANN LANDERS Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with ...
ANN LANDERS Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
ANN LANDERS The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.
ANN LANDERS When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the f...
ANN RADCLIFFE When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.
ANN RADCLIFFE It is dismal coming home, when there is nobody to welcome one!
ANN RADCLIFFE There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not e...
ANN RADCLIFFE Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each o...
ANN RADCLIFFE All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good...
ANN LANDERS What has a man's face to do with his character? Can a man of good character help having a disagreeab...
ANN RADCLIFFE There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.
ANN RADCLIFFE What are riches - grandeur - health itself, to the luxury of a pure conscience, the health of the so...
ANN RADCLIFFE Though the vicious can sometimes pour affliction upon the good, their power is transient and their p...
ANN RADCLIFFE The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinemen...
ANN RADCLIFFE Employment is the surest antidote to sorrow.
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