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By Amor-Y-Palabras SILVER
Springfield, Illinois

Fear is the look on a student’s face when their teacher gives them back a test they didn’t study for. Fear is when a girl’s face when she gets on the scale and realizes she’s gain...
Amor-Y-Palabras SILVER, Springfield, Illinois
5 articles 0 photos 38 comments

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"We must use the weapon of love. We must realize that so many people are taught to hate us that they are not totally responsible for their hate." -Martin Luther King Jr.


cieramist GOLD, Orlando, Florida
17 articles 2 photos 19 comments

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"Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right." ~ Henry Ford

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CheshireCat3 BRONZE, Islamabad, Other
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Happiness is nothing but good health and a bad memory

Lover_that_Hates DIAMOND, Reynolds, Georgia
76 articles 0 photos 118 comments

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"She was fascinated with words. To her words were things of beauty, each like a magical powder or potion that could be combinded with other words to create powerful spells." From: Lighting(By: Dean Koontz)

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DevinQuin GOLD, Norwalk, Iowa
12 articles 8 photos 14 comments

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"If it would be revealed or demonstrated that there is no future state (heaven), my advice to every man, woman, and child would be, as our existence would be in our own power, to take opium." - John Adams

Z.V.Oksana PLATINUM, Harrison, Arkansas
22 articles 1 photo 60 comments

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“Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there's a tomorrow. Maybe for you there's one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around it, let it slide like coins through you fingers. So much time you can waste it.
But for some of us there's only today. And the truth is, you never really know.”
― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

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LeilaCruz SILVER, Quezon City, Other
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suprgrl_21 GOLD, Newton, Kansas
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I can do all this through him who gives me strength. Phillipians 4:13