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A line from one of my 1997 columns - Do one thing every day that s

A line from one of my 1997 columns – Do one thing every day that scares you – is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I dont believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing. – Mary Schmich

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Dont expect anyone else to support you. Maybe youll have a trust fund. Maybe youll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either of them might run out. – Mary Schmich

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Trust
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Heres a thing about the death of your mother, or anyone else you love: You cant anticipate how youll feel afterward. People will tell you a few may be close to right, none exactly right. – Mary Schmich

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Death
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Fear
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As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers. – Cyril Connolly

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Fear

My greatest fear: repetition. – Max Frisch

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Fear

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home. – James A. Michener

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Fear

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now. – Alan Watts

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Fear

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Examine what is said, not him who speaks. – Arabic Proverb

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Sincerity

The two major things that changed the makeup of all professional sports are money generated by television and courts that players went to in order to win their freedom as free agents. – Will McDonough

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Sports

Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them. – Isaac Barrow

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design

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work. – Horace

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work