Is this the default? If it's for females, it must be pink?
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The world is biased against morning folk.
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Is it easier to love or hate?
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As much as I did manage to accomplish, I didn't achieve everything I set out to achieve in 2012.
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For 2012, this is the last scheduled entry. It's an odd feeling, reaching the end of the topic list.
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I'm sorry that kids today don't have the parental untethering I did when I left for school.
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Most people associate bragging with bad manners—and for some bragging, they're not wrong. Yet there are polite ways to brag.
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People in developing countries are not less driven by consumerism and advancement than people in more developed countries.
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There's validity in the notion that talking about something gives it reality.
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There's incredible difficulty in ensuring a reader hates a character—but doesn't hate him so terribly much that he can't keep reading.
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The dominant pop psychology is that people should completely unplug from work when on vacation. I disagree.
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Are you musical or nonmusical? Do you prefer melodies or lyrics—or do you equally weight both?
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Is there a way to step out of the rat race without jumping into an entirely new world?
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After the first semester of the first year of college, I went home for the first time. And realized it wasn't home.
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I'd rather wrangle with a haywire self-checkout kiosk.
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Fiction writing regularly presents blank walls that you need to knock down—or decorate.
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Few of us bother to hone the art of empathy. We should.
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Each November, writers across the globe participate in a challenge to write 50,000 words in 30 days on a new work of fiction.
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