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By Anonymous

Marijuana. Such copious amounts of violence, money, government, arguing, and propaganda over one little word. Let's start off with some basic history about the crop. Used f...

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By EbonyandIvory PLATINUM
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
EbonyandIvory PLATINUM, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Happiness is only a theory.<br /> Fate is my only enemy.

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TanviKusum DIAMOND, Gurgaon, Other
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All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers. <br /> Orison Swett Marden<br /> <br /> &quot;The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.&quot; - Anais Nin<br /> <br /> we speak in hushed voices so as to not wake our memories

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By iWriteForFood SILVER
Murfreesboro, Tennessee
iWriteForFood SILVER, Murfreesboro, Tennessee
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&quot;Logic will get you from point A to point B. Imagination will take you everywhere.&quot; ~Albert Einstein<br /> <br /> &quot;Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.&quot; Ralph Waldo Emerson

TheExquisiteWritter BRONZE, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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shreydesai GOLD, Saratoga, California
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&quot;The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do.&quot;

Dynamo DIAMOND, Lahore, Other
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I used to think falling in love would be personal. But it&#039;s all a big public show.

michaeln123 BRONZE, Cedar Park, Texas
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The world is like a ride at an amusement park. It goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it&rsquo;s very brightly coloured and it&rsquo;s very loud and it&rsquo;s fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time, and they begin to question: Is this real, or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they say, &ldquo;Hey &ndash; don&rsquo;t worry, don&rsquo;t be afraid, ever, because, this is just a ride&hellip;&rdquo; But we always kill those good guys who try and tell us that, you ever notice that? And let the demons run amok. Jesus &ndash; murdered; Martin Luther King &ndash; murdered; Malcolm X &ndash; murdered; Gandhi &ndash; murdered; John Lennon &ndash; murdered; Reagan&hellip; wounded. But it doesn&rsquo;t matter because: It&rsquo;s just a ride. And we can change it anytime we want. It&rsquo;s only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money. A choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one. Here&rsquo;s what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money that we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace.