"George Matthew Adams" was an American newspaper columnist and founder of the George Matthew Adams Newspaper Service, which syndicated comic strips and columns to newspapers for five decades. His own writings were circulated widely to The Gettysburg Times and many other newspapers.

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It?s interesting that astronomy can do this. And it?s great that there?s this ongoing interest in Ansel. We?re planning to go out and see it for curiosity?s sake.

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There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause.

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There are a myriad of immigration laws that, when looked at through the common sense of justice, don't add up.

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We don't even know their last name, but we know they have lost everything.

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There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.

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Many consumers are moving away from three core meals because they are skipping meals out of necessity. Some consumers are instead eating only when hungry, and eating more frequent meals of smaller portion size.

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Each day can be one of triumph if you keep up your interests.

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People think families like that are the exception, but they aren't. Unfortunately, great families are torn apart every day.

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What you think means more than anything else in your life. More than what you earn, more than where you live, more than your social position, and more than what anyone else may think about you.

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It's what each of us sows, and how, that gives to us character and prestige. Seeds of kindness, goodwill, and human understanding, planted in fertile soil, spring up into deathless friendships, big deeds of worth, and a memory that will not soon fade...

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Eating habits are evolving to meet the pace and structure of daily life. Consumers are responding to nutritional needs and the demands of daily life by missing meals, changing the times at which they eat and even changing the type of products they eat at each occasion.

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A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.

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In this life we get only those things for which we hunt, for which we strive, and for which we are willing to sacrifice.

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British people don't feel they can tear themselves away from their desk, and have developed a very functional relationship with food.

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We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves.

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We've been talking about a garage sale and we talked about what we could send them, ... Then we thought why not have a garage sale and just send them the money, it would be faster and they could buy whatever they really need.

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It doesn't fix everything, but it would create a more just system.

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