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Quote by Gail Sheehy
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Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough. – Gail Sheehy

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Although there are many trial marriages… there is no such thing as a trial child. – Gail Sheehy

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We hear the haunting presentiment of a dutiful middle age in the current reluctance of young people to select any option except the one they feel will impinge upon them the least. – Gail Sheehy

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There is no more defiant denial of one mans ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed. – Gail Sheehy

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A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. – Axel Munthe

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Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected – that is essential. – Anna Gould

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That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong. – William J.H. Boetcker

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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing. – Michel de Montaigne

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The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance. – Karl A. Menninger

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