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By tschafler BRONZE
Long Beach, New York

My friend Jessica lives in Baltimore, Maryland. We met on on a summer program and don’t see each other much, but we try to facetime once or twice a week to catch up. We be...
tschafler BRONZE, Long Beach, New York
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"Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs"


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By EllenMC GOLD
Boulder, Colorado
EllenMC GOLD, Boulder, Colorado
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Excerpt from Calvin and Hobbes:<br /> Calvin asks Mom: &quot;Why are you crying?&quot;<br /> Mom: &quot;I&#039;m cutting an onion.&quot;<br /> Calvin: &quot;Life must be hard when you start anthropomorphizing your vegetables.&quot;

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By ConnorP BRONZE
Overland Park, Kansas
ConnorP BRONZE, Overland Park, Kansas
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royalyellow BRONZE, Austin, Texas
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&quot;If we did all the things we were capable of, we would literally astound ourselves&quot; -Thomas Edison

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reaganlivi BRONZE, Hendersonville, Tennessee
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An endurance test for some is the pursuit of happiness- but we must dare to be happy.

declan_2016_ GOLD, Hilmar, California
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Remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.<br /> A.A. Milne

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By katied15 SILVER
Lawrenceville, New Jersey
katied15 SILVER, Lawrenceville, New Jersey
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&quot;Go confidently in the direction of your dreams- Live the life you&#039;ve imagined&quot;