July 15, 1991Nita: My mother was a paragon of our neighborhood, People always come up to us with hugs, saying "You have the most wonderful mother." l'd think. “Don't you see what's going on in this house?” To this day, if somehow even in jest raises their hand to me, I will do this (raises hands to protect face and cowers) I cringe. Then they look at me like, what's your probem? You don't get that from a great childhood. Sarah E. Olson
It’s never overreacting to ask for what you want and need.
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Amy Poehler
[T]he relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios--the overwhelming and underlying desire for something truly terrible to happen so that you could have something really hot to talk about--was still startling. We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is...
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Adam Gopnik
The Tausennigan Ob'enn warlords look like cuddly teddy-bears?"" Yes, they do, and they'd cheerfully exterminate your entire race for making that observation! "" I guess that explains their rich military history, then.
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Howard Tayler
Diplomacy's primary law: LEAVE ROOM FOR NEGOTIATION.
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Barbara W. Tuchman
When justice is more certain and more mild, is at the same time more efficacious.
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Alexis De Tocqueville
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I've been depressed all day. I feel like such a fraud. People say how special and wonderful I am. I think, " Can't they tell? "–Nita, September 18, 1984
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We say, "It wasn't that bad. It was all my fault. I’m making all this stuff up. "All my life, I spoke bitterly of my mother's treatment of me as a child. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>Friends asked, “What did she do to you?“ I couldn't really...
