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No matter how you define success, you will need to be resilient, empowered, authentic, and limber to get there.Joanie Connell
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I'd started calling my parents but only when I knew they wouldn't be home.Angus McLinn
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I'm looking for something new to believe in that isn't the way people yearn at night in the city.Constance Renfrow
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Why is it so hard? It's hard because it matters, I think.Mina Holmes
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There is a whole generation of young people just like us wandering around Europe and the rest of the world, trying to find some meaning for why they are alive and what they should choose to do with their time. When Martha leaves and we sit in front of the fire in the living room, I look to Lily until she turns to me and I can see the grief that hides just under the surface of her expression. We are, or at least were, two of those lost souls: wanderers, backpackers, season workers, Wwoofers, Workawayers, travellers: searching the world for something or someplace to hold on to. And we have come home not because we have retired from trying to find answers and are ready to settle into adulthood, but because my death has come upon us fast and unexpected. I am not the first person of this generation of travellers- or any person who lives in this godless, superficial society- to die. But I think that it feels to Lily and to me, my mother too perhaps, that I may very well be.Annie Fisher
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Only through becoming aware of yourself and your limitations can you be transparent with others.Joanie Connell
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Understanding what is being said is only a fraction of the task of communicating. Taking in signals from the entire context is critical.Joanie Connell
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In recent years a smaller share of young adults has been employed than at any time since the Bureau of Labor Statistics started tracking such trends in 1948. So it's not surprising that this generation of youthful protesters has a different focus for their grievances: the economy, stupid. But notice the targets they've chosen to demonize. It's all about class, not age. It's 1% versus 99%, not young versus old. Occupy Wall Street, not Occupy Leisure World.Pew Research Center
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I never sleep well when I'm on call.Joshua Tuttle
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We skipped right over Walmart on the ladder down.Tyler Barton
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At least a hospital stay will give him an excuse to halt the job hunt.Stephanie Bramson
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He didn't give a shit if Shakespeare didn't have glitter back in his day.Tiffany Ferentini
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Everyone loves a goddamned trainwreck, after all.Carolyn Drake
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Cigarette smoke when i didn't ask for it. Never when I did.Ifra Asad
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There's comfort in a life lived in circles and its careful, sloping lines.Jared Shaffer
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You were just a young girl not wanting to let on that death could happen to one who hadn't even lived yet.Katherine Sloan
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Flora went to the cinema every day that week. She saw the same movie each day, and wore the same dress.Angela Sloan
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I just want to always be here. In this place. Right here, right now.Xingyue Sarah He
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This is the generation that thinks of itself as global citizens but knows little about the world and acts locally. It is the most diverse generation in collegiate history with the strongest relationships between races but they have limited interest in talking about race or reaching across political or generational divides.Arthur Levine
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One thing they do not teach you in college is what you will actually be doing in a career of your choosing.Joanie Connell
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Information is valuable. Librarians and libraries are, at best incidental; at worst, in the way.Donald A. Barclay