Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.
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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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Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless with yours.
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