Carolyn Hax (Carolyn Hanley Hax) Quotes
The most reliable ways to make oneself miserable are attempting to change people and not attempting to change circumstances.
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I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.
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There's nothing that compares with the time spent all by myself on a creation that is all my own. I still think of my solo work as my 'home planet' in comics, though I've learned to listen much more to editors and trusted friends for feedback.
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I came to Washington with a pledge to be a fiscally conservative.
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In Puritan thinking, the Christian life was a heroic venture, requiring a full quota of energy.
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You get to a certain age and you can't judge yourself on your dad or your parents.
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Take these broken wings and learn to fly.
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All three games came down to the last play.
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What do we need a psychiatrist for? We know our kid is nuts.
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Often what is deeply offensive to Chinese-Americans that they are really well-represented in medicine, and yet on all these doctors' shows you hardly see any Chinese-American faces.
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People like me, who care about printing, constitute the tiniest lunatic fringe in the nation.
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You are the single biggest influence in your life.
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Our success depends very largely upon how well we negotiate our way through our daily contacts with other people without friction or opposition.
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Ask Elizabeth is a community of voices, it's not me standing on a podium telling people how to run their lives, it's girls helping each other sharing their wisdom and advice and I create a space for them to do it.
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Friends, genuine friends, are attracted by a warm heart, not money, not power. A genuine friend considers you as just another human being, as a brother or sister, and shows affection on that level, regardless of whether you are rich or poor, or in a high position; that is a genuine friend.
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The operators should be able to manage the scene.
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Two of my three siblings are older, so I suppose I learned from them and became a very avid reader at a young age, which I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature.
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As I have pointed out time and again, it's a hell of a lot cheaper to send little kids to school than it is to let them grow up into young thugs who have to be sent to prison, not to mention the savings in the wear and tear on the nerves, property, and safety of the rest of the citizenry.
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Our ancestors were an uncommonly hardy race, for the majority of the remedies would kill any of us modern weaklings, even if in robust health when they were administered.
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It's wrong that members of Congress can purchase luxury airfare with taxpayer money when many families in my district and across the county are struggling to make ends meet.
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We weren't put here to be miserable. We were put here to do the best we can, and we should take our energy and improve our state of being.
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The most reliable ways to make oneself miserable are attempting to change people and not attempting to change circumstances.
