Erma Bombeck Quotes
I have just come up with a wonderful solution to end all wars. Let me give directions on how to get there.
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You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
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A lot of times, women complain about men around them. It's not always someone else's fault. If you're the common denominator in 57 different relationships that didn't work out, then maybe, just maybe... it's you!
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Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!
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Outside the walls, among others, is the Soviet Empire. It is malevolent, destructive and expanding. It has swallowed up over half a dozen countries since World War II.
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The Constitution's pretty clear. The Federalist papers are pretty clear... They very specifically delegated the power to declare war to Congress. They wanted this to be a congressional decision; they did not want war to be engaged in by the executive without approval of Congress.
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Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
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I beg Osama to stop warring. He is a Muslim, and Islam means peace. Nobody wins in a war... I wish I were tapped in the problem about Iraq. I knew Saddam enough that I could have talked him into surrendering. But it's too late.
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Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.
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All men cannot go to college, but some men must; every isolated group or nation must have its yeast, must have, for the talented few, centers of training where men are not so mystified and befuddled by the hard and necessary toil of earning a living as to have no aims higher than their bellies and no God greater than Gold.
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I'm a war baby: I was brought up with rationing, and my parents always had to struggle. I remember when I was sent to boarding school - Prior Park College in Bath - my father was asked how he was going to pay the fees, and he replied: 'In arrears.'
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Throughout the history of Iceland, men have been lost at sea; every family in Iceland is connected to that kind of story.
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Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got.
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It's especially gratifying to have done a film like 'Eight Men Out' because it's hard not to have fun when there are so many bats and balls around.
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America was probably Europe's equal scientifically by the end of World War I and certainly surpassed it after the chaos of World War II.
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I'm Russian: I'm into men, diamonds, and caviar.
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Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
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Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.
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On the wisdom with which we bring science to bear in the war against disease, in the creation of new industries, and in the strengthening of our Armed Forces depends in large measure our future as a nation.
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All the female characters in 'The Gifted' are stronger than the men. We're not waiting around to be saved but spearheading the missions.
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In the real world, answers may not be clear cut. There will be messy choices, and you're not going to be able to construct a policy response in a neat and tidy way. Being able to listen to other people, even as you stay true to your principles, that's how you actually succeed.
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I think in life you should work on yourself until the day you die.
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People who have a sense of peace that their priorities are in the right place also have a sense of humility and a realistic view on life.
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Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others.
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I have just come up with a wonderful solution to end all wars. Let me give directions on how to get there.
