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Phyllis McGinley Quotes: Wherever conversation's flowing, / Why must I feel it falls on me / To keep things going?
         

Wherever conversation's flowing, / Why must I feel it falls on me / To keep things going?


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Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and trade and to give men their freedom.



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Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.



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Those wearing Tolerance for a label call other views intolerable.



A mother's hardest to forgive. Life is the fruit she longs to hand you Ripe on a plate. And while you live, Relentlessly she understands you.

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Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.

Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.



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Borrow my umbrellas, my clothes, my money, and I will likely not think of them again. But borrow my books and I will be on your track like a bloodhound until they are returned.



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ISIS and Al-Qaeda and whoever else, that is the only way they stop is after we convert. That’s what they say. The only way this stops is when the infidels convert.



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