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Under the influence
By Shadow878 GOLD
Marion, Indiana

Most of us would never play Russian roulette but we'll take a drink from someone we just met you won't go in the army because you might be shot but you'll ru...
Shadow878 GOLD, Marion, Indiana
10 articles 0 photos 32 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.&quot; Matthew 18:3<br /> <br /> &quot;Do not pray for easy lives, pray to be stronger men.&quot; JFK<br /> <br /> &ldquo;Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.&rdquo;Albert Einstein<br /> <br /> &quot;I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.&quot;<br /> C. S. Lewis <br /> <br /> &quot;A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.&quot;<br /> C. S. Lewis <br /> <br /> &quot;Anyone who doesn&rsquo;t believe in miracles is not a realist.&quot;<br /> David Ben-Gurion<br /> <br /> &quot;An eye for an eye makes the world go blind&quot; Gandi

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#229882 Poetry
Seppuku
By Anonymous
#229883 Poetry
My Arms
By recovery BRONZE
Franklin, Wisconsin
recovery BRONZE, Franklin, Wisconsin
4 articles 0 photos 2 comments
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#229884 Poetry
Within
By Lemons4Randi BRONZE
Aurora, Colorado
Lemons4Randi BRONZE, Aurora, Colorado
3 articles 1 photo 1 comment

Favorite Quote:
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.<br /> e. e. cummings

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#229885 Poetry
Always Be in My Heart
By catty98e GOLD
Spring HIll, Kansas
catty98e GOLD, Spring HIll, Kansas
12 articles 0 photos 42 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;I&#039;m a freak, I&#039;ve been a freak my whole life. I just have to live with it, you know. I&#039;m just one of those people. I&#039;m not going to change the way I think or the way I feel to conform to anything.&quot;<br /> -John Winston Lennon (1940-1980)

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#229886 Poetry
What Love Means to Me
By ZBrown579 BRONZE
Ocoee, Florida
ZBrown579 BRONZE, Ocoee, Florida
1 article 0 photos 0 comments
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#229887 Poetry
Budapest Armies
By Samtom311 PLATINUM
Delray Beach, Florida
Samtom311 PLATINUM, Delray Beach, Florida
27 articles 3 photos 25 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals, and I loathe humanity, for its failure to live up to these possibilities.&quot; -Ayn Rand

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#229888 Poetry
Stones
By Muiz.K SILVER
South River, New Jersey
Muiz.K SILVER, South River, New Jersey
6 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times if one remembers to turn on the light.&quot;<br /> -Albus Dumbledore

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#229889 Poetry
The Gravel Road
By ambreviews GOLD
New Hope, Minnesota
ambreviews GOLD, New Hope, Minnesota
12 articles 0 photos 2 comments
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#229890 Poetry
Sammy
By dsc1155 SILVER
Murrells Inlet, South Carolina
dsc1155 SILVER, Murrells Inlet, South Carolina
9 articles 2 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
LOITERING with a vacant eye<br /> Along the Grecian gallery,<br /> <br /> And brooding on my heavy ill,<br /> <br /> I met a statue standing still.<br /> <br /> Still in marble stone stood he,<br /> And stedfastly he looked at me.<br /> <br /> &lsquo;Well met,&rsquo; I thought the look would say,<br /> <br /> &lsquo;We both were fashioned far away;<br /> <br /> We neither knew, when we were young,<br /> <br /> These Londoners we live among.&rsquo;<br /> <br /> <br /> Still he stood and eyed me hard,<br /> <br /> An earnest and a grave regard:<br /> <br /> &lsquo;What, lad, drooping with your lot?<br /> <br /> I too would be where I am not.<br /> <br /> I too survey that endless line<br /> Of men whose thoughts are not as mine.<br /> <br /> Years, ere you stood up from rest,<br /> <br /> On my neck the collar prest;<br /> <br /> Years, when you lay down your ill,<br /> <br /> I shall stand and bear it still.<br /> Courage, lad, &rsquo;tis not for long:<br /> <br /> Stand, quit you like stone, be strong.&rsquo;<br /> <br /> So I thought his look would say;<br /> <br /> And light on me my trouble lay,<br /> <br /> And I slept out in flesh and bone<br /> Manful like the man of stone.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> -A.E. Housman

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