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When you live alone, you can be sure that the person who squeezed the toothpaste tube in the middle wasn't committing a hostile act.

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I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference.

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Ellen Goodman

Ellen Goodman

Born: April 11, 1941 (age 84)
Bio: Ellen Goodman is an American journalist and syndicated columnist who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1980. She is also a speaker and commentator.
Known for:
  1. I know just what you mean (2000)
  2. Paper Trail: Common Sense in Uncommon Times (2004)
  3. Value judgments (1993)
  4. The origins of the Western legal tradition (1995)
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