What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

—Pearl Bailey

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About Pearl Bailey

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Pearl Mae Bailey (March 29, 1918 – August 17, 1990) was an American actress, singer, comedian and author. After appearing in vaudeville, she made her Broadway debut in St. Louis Woman in 1946. She received a Special Tony Award for the title role in the all-Black production of Hello, Dolly!...

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A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.

—Pearl Bailey

People see God every day; they just don't recognize him.

—Pearl Bailey

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Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.

—Pearl Bailey

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Be kind to unkind people. They need it the most.

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We do what we must, and call it by the best names.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

What's important is people. The people who love us, who need us, who make us feel emotion. That's what's important in life.

—Helen Hardt in Possession

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The time you are most prepared for dating is when you don't need anyone to complete you, fulfill you, or instill in you a sense of worth or purpose.

—Myles Munroe in Waiting and Dating

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Men aren't stupid, and you don't need a complicated set of rules to find a good one who loves you. Here's the only rule you need: if a man loves you, he will do anything he can to keep you around. Anything.

—Kim Gruenenfelder in A Total Waste of Makeup

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