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Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

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I was terrible at straight items. When I wrote obituaries, my mother said the only thing I ever got them to do was die in alphabetical order. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

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Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

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House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#go #guests #house #leave #long

First there was the theatre of people and animals, then of people and the devil. Now we need the theatre of people and people. ↗

— Edward Bond

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If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#agreement #beautiful #coming #foundation #good

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still. ↗

— Lao Tzu

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I often say television is not a job for grown men. You go to a set, they pick out your clothes for you, they tell you where to stand, what to say, and your chair has your name on it in case you can't find a place to sit. ↗

— Danny Bonaduce

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