Earl A Grollman Quotes
For survivors, the word closure often connotes that the bereaved are underachievers who flunked a grief course.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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I think having imaginary friends is an amazing coping mechanism. It's pretty wonderful, and it makes a lot of sense to me.
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We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.
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We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.
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Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
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When I was a child we were sufficiently well off for me to be a picky eater and I still cannot eat vegetables cooked in the traditional British manner.
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It's a sin to be tired.
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I'm not looking for a 'yes' woman, but a strong person who knows when to be objective and when not to be.
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On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.
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I have three young kids and a great family. I love hanging out with them more than anything.
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As a society we should be encouraging people out of the debt-culture mindset, not promoting it.
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The last thing I want my child to see is Dad running around in the middle of the pack. That would really upset me. And that would upset him. I would be embarrassed to take him to school with kids saying, 'Hey, how'd your dad do this weekend?' 'Well, he finished fifth or sixth'.
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There is no way I'd have wanted to live in the Twenties. It was really crap for women.
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The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role.
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I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.
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Women are so necessary for us in terms of support.
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Only that position can impart dignity in which we do not appear as servile tools but rather create independently within our circle.
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The White Knight must not have whiskers; he must not be made to look old.
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I come from very humble origins, so the last thing I would ever do is to look down my nose at people who can't afford to come here to my shop.
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I take no credit at all. This is a talented team with a real desire to follow a specific style of play.
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Anyone who isn't confused doesn't really understand the situation.
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To live is to change, and to obtain perfection is to change often.
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The longer I live, the more it grieves me to see man, who occupies his supreme place for the very purpose of imposing his will upon nature, and freeing himself and his from an outrageous necessity--to see him taken up with some false notion, and doing just the opposite of what he wants to do; and then, because the whole bent of his mind is spoilt, bungling miserably over everything.
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For survivors, the word closure often connotes that the bereaved are underachievers who flunked a grief course.
