When someone repeatedly insists that something isn't true, it increases the likelihood that it is. - Amy Dickinson

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I knew I was going to be a journalist when I was eight years old and I saw the printing presses rolling at the Sydney newspaper where my dad worked as a proofreader.

Amy Dickinson

When someone repeatedly insists that something isn't true, it increases the likelihood that it is.

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You cannot tie your fiance to the railroad track of self-reflection and personal improvement.

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You must give and receive love only when doing so doesn't hurt others. That's the ethical path, and you should gain strength from walking it.

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You should not propose marriage until you have resolved your feelings about your ex.

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You should not be hovering in the background, inflating the drama. Simply envelop him in love and affection and let him know that you will support his efforts, whatever they are.

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You should do what you want, but I think you should also consider wanting something different.

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I knew I was going to be a journalist when I was eight years old and I saw the printing presses rolling at the Sydney newspaper where my dad worked as a proofreader.

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John Gresham Machen

A public-school system, if it means the providing of free education for those who desire it, is a noteworthy and beneficent achievement of modern times; but when once it becomes monopolistic it is the most perfect instrument for tyranny which has yet been devised. Freedom of thought in the middle ages was combated by the Inquisition, but the modern method is far more effective. ’ (1923)

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Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true,- A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew.

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