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By AHandfulOfDust BRONZE
San Antonio, Texas

I spent a lot of time thinking about gay marriage today and watching relevant videos, as I often do. In one 2008 November Special Comment, Keith Olbermann makes a very good point:...
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Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.<br /> ~Lemony Snicket


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Princeton Junction, New Jersey
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&quot;There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old&#039;s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.&quot;[

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Hartland, Wisconsin
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Gallipolis Ferry, West Virginia
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Courage is not a lack of fear, it is acting despite the fear.

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