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By CupcakeGirly1819 BRONZE
CORAL SPRINGS, Florida

Today in society there has been a recent spark is social media activism with hashtags. The most well-known hashtag is #BLACKLIVESMATTER (BLM). The BLM movement is important, nec...
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Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer. <br /> Ted Williams

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&quot;When you meet a new person the first thing they know about is your name &hellip;. and the first thing they&rsquo;ll remember about you is how you carried it&quot;- Dai janai Yarber

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I found myself looking around me at hollow faces, and wondering if this is it, if every heart on this earth has been stained. But then, when I look into our hearts, I see we&#039;re all like candles with beauty inside, masked behind wax, hardened by the pain we all must face. But when one of us begins to burn with compassion, our fragrance fills the air, and we unconsciously ignite others around us. I find that the wax melts, and that is our core, our beauty, our light that remains. Slowly we&#039;ll burn one by one, till the day we reach the end of our sticks and we&#039;re all burning with compassion. So maybe we all have to be set alight.- Percy Jackson, Wolf&#039;s Law Chapter 23.