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Ladies and gentlemen of the class of '97:
Wear sunscreen.
If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now.
Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Oh, never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they've faded. But trust me, in 20 years, you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked. You are not as fat as you imagine.
Don't worry about the future. Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4 p.m. on some idle Tuesday. ~ Mary Schmich
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On an average day, we allow ourselves the fiction that we own a piece of our workplace. That's part of what it takes to get the job done. Deeper down, we know it's all on loan. ~ Mary Schmich
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You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when. ~ Mary Schmich
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Keep your old love letters. Throw away your old bank statements. ~ Mary Schmich
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Don't waste your time on jealousy ... ~ Mary Schmich
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One thing you might want to learn before you attend the world's largest ukulele lesson is how to say ukulele. ~ Mary Schmich
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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 don't believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing. ~ Mary Schmich
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Here's a thing about the death of your mother, or anyone else you love: You can't anticipate how you'll feel afterward. People will tell you; a few may be close to right, none exactly right. ~ Mary Schmich
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Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room. ~ Mary Schmich
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Advice is a form of Nostalgia ~ Mary Schmich
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The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them. ~ Mary Schmich
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TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no tantrums, no videotape. ~ Mary Schmich
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I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper love I have for my siblings and friends. The desire to play the mandolin. The gift of a visitation. ~ Mary Schmich
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Worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. ~ Mary Schmich
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Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. ~ Mary Schmich
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Like many women my age, I am 28 years old. ~ Mary Schmich
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Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia. ~ Mary Schmich
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Chicago is constantly auditioning for the world, determined that one day, on the streets of Barcelona, in Berlin's cabarets, in the coffee shops of Istanbul, people will know and love us in our multidimensional glory, dream of us the way they dream of San Francisco and New York. ~ Mary Schmich
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Do not read beauty magazines. They only make you feel ugly. ~ Mary Schmich
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Remember compliments you receive. Forget the insults. If you succeed in doing this, tell me how. ~ Mary Schmich
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'The Hunger Games' isn't for everybody. But neither is 'Anna Karenina.' ~ Mary Schmich
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Barbie is just a doll. ~ Mary Schmich
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Don't waste your time worrying about the future, it might never come. ~ Mary Schmich
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Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views. ~ Mary Schmich
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The cell phone has transformed public places into giant phone-a-thons in which callers exist within narcissistic cocoons of private conversations. Like faxes, computer modems and other modern gadgets that have clogged out lives with phony urgency, cell phones represent the 20th Century's escalation of imaginary need. We didn't need cell phones until we had them. Clearly, cell phones cause not only a breakdown of courtesy, but the atrophy of basic skills. ~ Mary Schmich
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Families are ecosystems. Each life grows in response to the lives around it ~ Mary Schmich
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For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation. ~ Mary Schmich
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Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air out, the light pour in. In baseball, no other day is so pure with possibility. No scores yet, no losses, no blame or disappointment. No hangover, at least until the game's over. ~ Mary Schmich
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Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and proceeds to dress in a style that can only be called preposterous. ~ Mary Schmich
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Approach your lives as if they were novels, with their own heroes, villains, red herrings, and triumphs ~ Mary Higgins Clark
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Life is a journey one that much better traveled with a companion by our side. Sometimes, we lose our companions along the way and then the journey becomes unbearable. You see, human beings are designed for many things, but loneliness isn't one of them. ~ Mary Alice
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The aim of human rights, if I may borrow a term from engineering, is to move beyond the design and drawing-board phase, to move beyond thinking and talking about the foundations stones - to laying those foundation stones, inch by inch, together. ~ Mary Robinson
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everything works out for the best and that every reverse in life carries the seeds of something better in the future. ~ Mary Beth Brown
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I'm doomed to act like myself, even when it's inconvenient! ~ Mary Karr
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There was no one for you to impress and no one for you to offend. You were right there and I was afraid of how real you were, which made me question my own level of authenticity. I'd take off my clothes on the beach or spill my guts to a girl I'd never met on the bus, thinking I was uncensored and open, but I wasn't always real if I wanted someone to like me. I gravitated to those who withheld or told me who they thought I was. ~ Mary-Louise Parker
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Philanthropy is one of the most hopeful characteristics of our time. ~ Mary Livermore
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Those were the Rommely women: Mary, the mother, Evy, Sissy, and Katie, her daughters, and Francie, who would grow up to be a Rommely woman even though her name was Nolan. They were all slender, frail creatures with wondering eyes and soft fluttery voices. But they were made out of thin invisible steel. ~ Betty Smith
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Regardless of when Advent begins, every year the same Scripture readings are used for weekdays from December 17-24. The Gospels on those days describe events leading up to the birth of Christ: December 17: The genealogy of Jesus (Matthew) December 18: The annunciation to Joseph (Matthew) December 19: The annunciation to Zechariah (Luke) December 20: The annunciation to Mary (Luke) December 21: Mary's visit to Elizabeth (Luke) December 22: Mary's "Magnificat" (Luke) December 23: The birth of John the Baptist (Luke) December 24: The "Benedictus" of Zechariah (Luke) ~ Ken Untener
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Is this wide world not large enough to fill thee,Nor Nature, nor that deep man's Nature, Art?Are they too thin, too weak and poor to still thee,Thou little heart? ~ Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
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if we want to love Jesus completely, ardently, and perfectly - as did Mother Teresa - then we need his Spirit of Love, and Mary Immaculate brings him to us. ~ Michael Gaitley
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Having a great dad probably permitted me to pal around with guys in a way that some women don't. ~ Mary Karr
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I'd seen
their hoofprints in the deep
needles and knew
they ended the long night
under the pines ...
I was thinking:
so this is how you swim inward,
so this is how you flow outward,
so this is how you pray.
(from poem, "Five A.M. in the Pinewoods") ~ Mary Oliver
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Being fat means being left out, scorned, and vilified. ~ Mary Pipher
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He's got that way of believing his opinion is the truth, but he's not disagreeable about it. He's too sure he's right to bother being disagreeable. ~ Mary Ann Shaffer
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Can you remember another time when your chest felt like this?"
My fingers splayed across my aching chest as I carefully pondered her
question. Then I nodded vigorously as I remembered. Tears streamed down my cheeks unchecked as I whispered hoarsely, "Yes, I do remember.After my husband died, it hurt like this. My chest felt full and heavy, and I thought then, Oh, this is what it feels like to have your heart break. ~ Mary Potter Kenyon
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But I also want her to know that Mary Ann and I are best friends and have been forever. ~ Laurie B. Friedman
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I know how betrayal and disillusionment feel, when someone who could give you the world refuses even a tiny piece of it. ~ Mary Kubica
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He proceeded to cut carefully a thin slice from the loaf, which he quartered in pieces and buttered for her, the whole business very delicately done and in striking contrast to his manner in serving himself - so much so that to Mary there was something almost horrifying in the change from rough brutality to fastidious care. It was as though there was some latent power in his fingers which turned them from bludgeons into deft and cunning servants. Had he cut her a chunk of bread and hurled it at her she would not have minded so much; it would have been in keeping with what she had seen of him. But this sudden coming to grace, this quick and exquisite moving of his hands, was a swift and rather sinister revelation, sinister because it was unexpected and not true to type. ~ Daphne Du Maurier
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The people we love are usually stronger than we give them credit for. It is the nature of love, perhaps, to want to shoulder all the pain rather than see the loved one suffer. But sometimes pain is better than emptiness. I have been so empty Kit. All my life. So full of emptiness. That is strange paradox is nit not - full of emptiness? ~ Mary Balogh
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I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds. ~ Mary Wortley Montagu
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After all, Ignatius of Loyola, a soldier who had killed and whored and made a thorough mess of his soul, said you could judge prayer worthwhile simply if you could act more decently, think more clearly afterward. As D.W. once told him, "Son, sometimes it's enough just to act less like a shithead. ~ Mary Doria Russell
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Our children must never lose their zeal for
building a better world. ~ Mary McLeod Bethune
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She whispers it aloud, 'lorelei.' the sound makes her ache, makes the word even more beautiful, even more real. ~ Mary E. Pearson
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It's not what you play, it's how you play it. ~ Mary Lou Williams
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It appears necessary to go back to first principles in search of the most simple truths, and to dispute with some prevailing prejudice every inch of ground. ~ Mary Wollstonecraft
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Erase the word "failure" from your vocabulary. No case is ever truly closed, and no challenge is ever over. ~ Mary Lou Retton
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Books have been my constant companions, from a tender age until this day - Mary Bennet ~ Shannon Winslow
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It must be a great disappointment to God if we are not dazzled at least ten times a day. ~ Mary Oliver
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Ancients pulled metals more precious than gold from the center of the earth - They spun into giant lacy wings that flew them to the stars and back
"Is that what you'd do with wings?"
She shook her head "No, I'd fly to the stars, but I'd never come back ~ Mary E. Pearson
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Could I speak to you for a moment, madam?' said Nannie to Agnes.

It was at moments of crisis like this that Mary chiefly envied her Aunt Agnes's imperturbable disposition. Most mothers feel a hideous sinking at the heart when these fatal words are pronounced, but Agnes only showed a kindly and inactive interest.

In anyone else Mary might have suspected unusual powers of bluff, hiding trembling knees, a feeling of helpless nausea, flashes of light behind the eyes, storm in the brain, and a general desire to say 'Take double your present wages, but don't tell me what it is you want to speak to me about.'

But Agnes, placidly confident in the perfection of her own family and the unassailable security of her own existence, was only capable of feeling a mild curiosity and barely capable of showing it. ~ Angela Thirkell
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I think there simply comes a point at which you're beating your head against the wall with revision, when you're making something different but not better. For me, revision usually has more to do with making the language prettier, finding clearer images, using more active verbs. ~ Mary J. Miller
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Rabbits are a foolish people. They do not fight except with their own kind, nor use their paws except for feet, and appear to have no reason for existence but to furnish meals for meat-eaters. In flight they seem to rebound from the earth of their own elasticity, but keep a sober pace going to the spring. It is the young watercress that tempts them and the pleasures of society, for they seldom drink. ~ Mary Hunter Austin
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The sweet reward for preparation often does not come in the youthful twenties or staid thirties. It arrives - with accrued interest - in the mature years. ~ Mary Ellen Snodgrass
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A woman reasons by telegraph, and his [a man's] stage-coach reasoning cannot keep pace with hers. ~ Mary Edwards Walker
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I did think, let's go about this slowly.
This is important. This should take some really deep thought. We should take small thoughtful steps.
But, bless us, we didn't. ~ Mary Oliver
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My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free. ~ Mary Wollstonecraft
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Now there is a book coming out that says Christ was really a woman who was a lesbian in a relationship with Mary Magdalene."
Jill started laughing . . . "Come on, people aren't that gullible."
"Right," Allison said. "All you've got to do is tell them it's 'secret' or 'forbidden' or 'hidden' knowledge, then get a movie star to peddle it, and they'll believe anything. ~ Joseph Max Lewis
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My crime books are actually novels and are written as such. One might even say that each one is really two novels, one of which is the story I tell the reader, and the other the buried story I know and let slip now and then into a clue to whet the reader's interest. ~ Mary Roberts Rinehart
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So many dead, Grace thought in melancholy wonder, and realised, for perhaps the first time, that there were more dead people in the world than live ones. ~ Mary Hooper
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Maturity involves being honest and true to oneself, making decisions based on a conscious internal process, assuming responsibility for one's decisions, having healthy relationships with others and developing one's own true gifts. It involves thinking about one's environment and deciding what one will and won't accept. ~ Mary Pipher
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Music is where my love is. I don't think the acting thing is going to start outweighing that, but I think it's going to start being a good chunk of something I want to do. ~ Mary J. Blige
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In Jane Austen it was the critical faculty that would not be quieted; and that faculty in her, played on men and women. ~ Mary Lascelles
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I think we have responsibilities to be active in the things we believe in, regardless of what our job is. At least in my lifetime, there has been a tremendous combining of activism and music, that came up in the era of Pete Seeger and the Weavers and Joan Baez and Bob Dylan and Peter Paul & Mary. ~ Bonnie Raitt
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At least now she had time to write. All the time. In the world. Alone. Forever. ~ Mary H.K. Choi
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There's no better friend than a sister ... ~ Mary Engelbreit
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You need to talk to Alden about your feelings for him, Race said.
"You don't know anything about it. Mind your own business, Race."
You love him. I know. I'm in here. I feel your soul, Rose. ~ Mary Lindsey
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I wish you could persuade Mary not to be always fancying herself ill. ~ Jane Austen
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You can stick to your immovable zero-tolerance rules, but I'm going to stick to the motto "There's hope until the last second'! ~ Mary Lindsey
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