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Is It Worth It?
By Anonymous

Ever wonder why people start to self harm? Is it the thought if it feeling good. The thought of a temporary release? When in all reality cutting turns to something that begins t...
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Sexism
By Insane2001 SILVER
Plainsboro, New Jersey
Insane2001 SILVER, Plainsboro, New Jersey
8 articles 0 photos 4 comments

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I found myself looking around me at hollow faces, and wondering if this is it, if every heart on this earth has been stained. But then, when I look into our hearts, I see we're all like candles with beauty inside, masked behind wax, hardened by the pain we all must face. But when one of us begins to burn with compassion, our fragrance fills the air, and we unconsciously ignite others around us. I find that the wax melts, and that is our core, our beauty, our light that remains. Slowly we'll burn one by one, till the day we reach the end of our sticks and we're all burning with compassion. So maybe we all have to be set alight.- Percy Jackson, Wolf's Law Chapter 23.

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The Pain Behind The Beauty
By izzyz SILVER
Vienna, Other
izzyz SILVER, Vienna, Other
7 articles 1 photo 5 comments

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"Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable and to give an appearance of of solidity to pure wind." George Owell

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Drug Enforcement Agency Checking in on Us?
By Anonymous
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I Believe
By SelflesslyAlone BRONZE
Batavia, Illinois
SelflesslyAlone BRONZE, Batavia, Illinois
4 articles 0 photos 1 comment

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&quot;The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.&quot;<br /> Mark Twain

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A year in a month
By ACLEW2121 GOLD
Defiance, Ohio
ACLEW2121 GOLD, Defiance, Ohio
10 articles 0 photos 0 comments

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~Motivation will always beat mere talent.

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Texting While Driving: Not Worth the Risk
By HailToTheStud SILVER
West Haven, Utah
HailToTheStud SILVER, West Haven, Utah
7 articles 0 photos 20 comments

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&quot;To be successful as a man is to make more money than your significant other can spend. To be successful as a woman is to find such a man.&quot;<br /> &quot;Trial is putting your life in the hands of 12 people that weren&#039;t smart enough to get out of jury duty&quot;

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Panic Attack
By shouqeen BRONZE
Rawalpindi, Oregon
shouqeen BRONZE, Rawalpindi, Oregon
1 article 0 photos 0 comments

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&ldquo;Dwelling on the misfortunes of birth is meaningless, because for all of one&rsquo;s flaws and sufferings, we have just one life. To me, there is only one truth in life; Determination never betrays you.&rdquo;

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Growing Up Too Fast
By Writer_in_neverland BRONZE
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Writer_in_neverland BRONZE, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
3 articles 0 photos 0 comments

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Forget all the reasons it won&#039;t work and believe the one reason it will.

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Alana
By Salma Guzman BRONZE
Phoenix, Arizona
Salma Guzman BRONZE, Phoenix, Arizona
3 articles 0 photos 0 comments
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