withering out a young man’s revenue. THESEUS Our wedding day is almost here, my beautiful Hippolyta. We’ll be getting married in four days, on the day of the new moon. But it seems to me that the days are passing too slowly—the old moon is taking too long to fade away! That old, slow moon is keeping me from getting what I want, just like an old widow makes her stepson wait to get his inheritance. HIPPOLYTA Four days will quickly steep themselves in night. Four nights will quickly dream
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knows if they were or were not gay already. They have their own life and choices as well as anybody else that wants to be in the military. Everybody deserves a chance to do something that they would like to do in their life. They are people like you and me. There are people out there that will not do anything for the military but then you have people that want to do it but cant because of what they believe in. That would be like telling someone that they can’t do it because of their race. Everyone has
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Mahatma Gandhi “Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.” ― John Greenleaf Whittier “Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swaps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.” ― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
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Christopher is still poking around in other people’s business after I told him several bloody times to mind his own f*&%ing business. I have to think of something fast. He’s a clever boy. He could find out, he could find out about everything. I can’t let that happen. Maybe if I hadn’t killed that bloody dog in the first place, none of this would have happened. I yelled at him today when I got home about how he should mind his own business. I know he understands, but he just doesn’t want to listen
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My first never – gettable love It was 2002. And I had just shifted to a new school. It was hard getting through the entrance as it was an ARMY SCHOOL and it one of the many average students with high hopes and get nothing. It was the first time I knew what girls really are. But that wasn’t so. I was just an dumbass who knew how to take advantage of an extra bulky figure. It was a time when girls used to pull down
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Overcoming adversity is never easy. Especially, when you do not quite see that you are disadvantaged. I can do something that most nineteen year olds cannot. I can tell you exactly when I overcame my adversary, how I overcame it, and who was there to help me along on my journey. I was about eleven the first time it happened. I was with my oldest sister celebrating New Years with her and her boyfriend. She had just graduated high school and was living with him, his little brother, and his parents
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| ” | According to the constitution, the SONA delivered every 4th Monday of July at the Batasang Pambansa Complex in Batasan Hills, Quezon City. Pres. Aquino’s State of the Nation Address is the first SONA that I have ever read. It is hard for me to give a reaction for I could not evaluate or compare it with other SONA’s of the past presidents. I am torn with whether to give a positive reaction or negative reaction to President Aquino’s SONA. In the past years, I was aware that SONA is something
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Every time when I get sick and got the wind knocked out of me I remember the first time that I went on a roller coaster. It was a humid and muggy day at the end of the spring and in the beginning of summer. The were hoards of people all over the place and the smell of popcorn filled the air. The normal person would be excited but not me because today I would have to face my fear of going on a roller coaster. My fears of heights and being held upside down did not make a good combination when it came
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Don't go over the line. Don't let go. Wait for it. "BANG!" My reactions were precise as I sprung out of the blocks. The sun was beating down on my back as my feet clawed at the blistering, red turf. With every step I took, my toes sunk into the squishy, foul smelling surface, as my lungs grasped for air. Everything felt the way it should as I plunged toward my destination. I clutched the baton in my sweaty palms, promising myself not to let go. My long legs moved me as fast as I could go as I hugged
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times of me with my wife, Eve; my beautiful Eve. I pictured us together in the garden and then something started to happen inside of me. I felt this power. I saw Buddha there with us in the garden glowing. Qiao told me to open my eyes and stand up. So I stood up with a teardrop running down my face. Qiao told me to use that power and channel it through my fists. Qiao told me to swing both my hands now. As I swung, Qiao placed a thick piece of wood in my way. I felt the life from my soul go through
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