And if we folks have a motto, it's this: 'Don't holler - smile and bide your time. ' … - Margaret Mitchell

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I have made my thoughts on it (sledging) well known over the last couple of years. We are more than happy to be talking to opposition players in the field so long as it is not personal or abusive.

Margaret Mitchell

And if we folks have a motto, it's this: 'Don't holler - smile and bide your time. ' We've survived a passel of things that way, smiling and biding our time, and we've gotten to be experts at surviving.

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Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no worse than it is.

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If Gone With the Wind has a theme it is that of survival. What makes some people come through catastrophes and others, apparently just as able, strong, and brave, go under? It happens in every upheaval. Some people survive; others don't. What qualities are in those who fight their way through triumphantly that are lacking in those that go under? I only know that survivors used to call that quality 'gumption. ' So I wrote about people who had gumption and people who didn't.

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Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.

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Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.

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I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

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