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AGING GRACEFULLY
If you want to know what your girlfriend will look like in 20 years, take a good look at her mother.
Dean Sheridan, electronics technician and deaf actor, Torrance, California
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Current Rating: 5.7 out of 10 based on 27 reviews
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CARING FOR DOGS
Housebreaking a puppy will depreciate the net worth of your home and clothes by 5 to 10 percent.
Al Hassan, veterinarian and doctor, Sacramento, California
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Current Rating: 4.5 out of 10 based on 22 reviews
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1356 Building thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb
BUILDING WALLS OF ADOBE
The height of an adobe wall should be less than ten times its thickness unless it is stiffened by buttresses or intersecting partitions.
Marcia Southwick, writer and builder
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Current Rating: 5.8 out of 10 based on 17 reviews
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WRITING A LETTER
A letter takes three times as long to write as it does to say.
Glenn Kornblum, St. Louis, Missouri
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Current Rating: 5.6 out of 10 based on 21 reviews
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GETTING THROUGH COLLEGE
Never take a course from the professor who wrote the text book.
Anonymous
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Current Rating: 5.9 out of 10 based on 31 reviews
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THE 80S RULE FOR WEIGHING YOUR SALARY
If a single career woman is not making her age times $1,000 in annual salary at age 30, she should either change careers or marry a career man making $80,000 or better and become a wife and mother. She can then live comfortably and afford one additional child for each $20,000 per year he makes over $80,000.
Barbara Greenlee B.S., R.N., Ship's Nurse, Kauai, Hawaii
(LR) Legacy Rule of Thumb from previously published collections
Current Rating: 3.4 out of 10 based on 18 reviews
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1361 Language thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb
LEARNING A LANGUAGE
The more languages you know, the easier it is for you to learn a new one.
Paul A. Delaney, meteorologist, Beltsville, Maryland
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Current Rating: 6 out of 10 based on 19 reviews
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LANDING AN AIRPLANE
Begin your descent 5 miles out for every 1,000 feet of altitude you have to lose. If you are 8,000 feet above the ground, start your descent 40 miles from the airport.
Bruce Landsberg, pilot and writer
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Current Rating: 4.8 out of 10 based on 15 reviews
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ADAPTING A NOVEL FOR A FILM
As a rule, the more you liked the novel, the less you will like the movie that is made from it.
Rebecca Sawyer, bookkeeper
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Current Rating: 5.3 out of 10 based on 18 reviews
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RENTING A HOUSE IN IOWA
Don't pay more than one-fourth of your income for rent in Iowa.
Lee Sliger, Burlington, Iowa
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Current Rating: 5.5 out of 10 based on 18 reviews
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FINDING THE RIGHT WIG
Toupees never look like the real thing. They either look cheap or like a "good one."
Steven M. Keisman, New York City high school resource coordinator
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Current Rating: 5.9 out of 10 based on 18 reviews
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