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Don’t Do What You Love
One of the worst pieces of career advice that I bet each of you has not only gotten but given is to “do what you love.” Forget that. It’s absurd.
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24 Books You’ve Probably Never Heard Of But Will Change Your Life
Checking off the various books from your high school curriculum, and then, perhaps the “100 Greatest Books Ever Written” is the educational equivalent of skating to where the puck is…
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23 Bizarre Suicides From Around The World
A collection of men and women, famous and not, who have taken their own lives because of life.
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11 Signs You’re Just In Love With The Idea Of Love
3. You know you don’t really love them, but you’re holding on to the love they give.
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The Worst Thing You Can Say To Someone Who Loves You
It is humiliation, self-loathing, and endless questioning over why, exactly, you weren’t good enough.
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30 Relationship Red Flags That Most People Ignore
One of the red flags I totally ignored in a past relationship is that I didn’t really like any of her friends. If you don’t like the people your SO…
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8 Reasons Why Intelligent And Financially Stable People Don’t Want Kids
How well did that mother eat when she was pregnant? How was this kid raised? What baggage am I also getting? No, we like to buy new things from accredited…
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23 Very Famous Quotes You Probably Have Wrong
Sarah Palin never said “You can see Russia from my house.”
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A Quote That Will Completely Change The Way You Think About Love
“Unless it’s mad, passionate, extraordinary love, it’s a waste of your time. There are lots of mediocre things in life. Love shouldn’t be one of them.”
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What It’s Like To Be 15 Pounds Overweight
I gaze at the mirror to inspect my double chin and puffy cheeks. I imagine the conversations the people in my life have about me behind my back about how…
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Desperately Seeking Sugar Daddies
To overcome my reservations about walking the line between dating and prostitution, I told myself that any such concerns were the result of societal conditioning.
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“Hurt”: That Time When Johnny Cash Stole Trent Reznor’s Best Song
“I pop the video in, and wow… Tears welling, silence, goose-bumps… Wow.”
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The One Who Cares Less
I’ve often heard that people only start wanting you when they think that you don’t want them. It’s true; I’ve lived by it.
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How To Be Great In Bed
Is there anything worse than having sex with someone who is just laying there like a dead fish? Can you like wiggle your toes or maybe arch your back once…
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How To Date A Divorced Guy, And Why It’s Worthwhile
What some call baggage, others call vital experience.
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10 Things I Subconsciously Discovered That Changed My Life
I personally know for a fact that I squandered my youth away, and now I’m just trying to compensate myself for all that lost time. Maybe I matured later than…
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All The Metaphors You’ll Ever Need For The Summer
Summer is when we realize all of a sudden that we have always had too much skin.
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21 Fat Guy Fail GIFs That Will Brighten Your Day
It’s Friday, and that means the weekend is RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER. While you feel exhilarated at the thought of staying in bed and watching Netflix, take a moment of…
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I’ll Never Be The “Beautiful Girl,” But I Can Still Be Me
There are Beautiful Girls and there are Not So Beautiful Girls. I am not the former.
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10 Hard Truths About Taking A Semester Off
The more miserable a job is, the more they have to compensate you for being miserable
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I Am A Woman, And I Am Empowered By Degrading Music
When I hear 2 Chainz musing about how much he loves them strippers, I can’t help but agree with his tastes.
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10 Gut Feelings You Should Never Ignore
When that little voice rears it’s ugly head and tells you at the most mundane moment: but you don’t really love them.
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What Being Queer Is Like When You Don’t “Look Like a Lesbian”
So how do we welcome these femme women into the LGBT community? It’s actually pretty simple: Don’t make assumptions.
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I’m Fascinated By Female Pornstars
I just like to watch them perform. They have this attitude towards sex that feels incredibly liberating. They’re nice to look at. They inspire me to do ab-workouts.
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The First Time You Sleep With Someone You Really Like
There is always something that you will look back on and cringe at, if only because the human body isn’t perfect, much less so when it’s under the unpredictable lights…
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23 Signs You’re Addicted To Starbucks
Whenever you are in a new place, the local Starbucks is always the touchstone of familiarity and comfort around which your trip can revolve.
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30 People On Why They’re Still Single
Because I’m still in love with my ex, and that makes me feel pathetic and angry, so then I drink to deal with the loneliness.
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21 Mistakes Men Have Made Trying To Seduce Me On Online Dating Sites
Sending a message that was obviously just copy/pasted to 30+ girls: we can tell when you do this. It’s not exactly a panty dropper.
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22 Sweet Life Hacks That You’ll Totally Use
Wet a t-shirt you would sleep in and run it through the spin cycle on a washing machine for about 30 seconds until the shirt is damp but not dripping…
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10 Ways To Fall Out Of Love With Someone
We have a tendency to exacerbate relationships by the way in which we categorize them as good bad or ugly, and yet, for some reason, no matter which way we…
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The Four Ds of Bystander Intervention: How To Make The World A Better Place
Bystander intervention. Have you heard about this thing? I bet you have, and I bet you’ve done it without thinking.
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10 Awesome, Go-To Songs For Waking Up In The Morning
Let the greatness of the Space Jam soundtrack live on in your a.m. regiment, taking the wheel of your weak, exhausted body.
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I’m A Straight Girl, But Prefer Lesbian Porn. Anyone Else?
Now, I should say that I am straight, and have had a slew of boyfriends and am pretty darn serious with my latest one – but still, my liking for…
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The 9 Best TV Shows You Probably Aren’t Watching
If The Killing frustrated you, check out Top of the Lake. This miniseries stars Elisabeth Moss as an Australian detective in New Zealand, searching for a missing pregnant 12 year-old…
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30 Weirdest Deaths You’ll Find On Wikipedia
The following list describes unusual, strange, horrible deaths.
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Open Canvas San Francisco
We want you to feel inspired, and to create your own reality through creative risk taking and will provide the opportunity through this artistic competition.
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5 Things You Have To Remember When You’re Feeling Depressed
Be in the present. When you’re unhappy, it’s tempting to think about the past and basically anything that’s not right in front of you. But the past is something you…
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How To Tell What Movie Genre Your Sex Life Would Be
In Pirates of the Caribbean, we see the story of a daring search for booty, and if that description is also fitting of your sex life, well it most definitely…
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How To Stop Questioning Everything And Go With The Flow
I’m turning 28 in a matter of days. My twenties are almost over.
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21 People Who Are Embarrassed About The Way They Died
He was wearing the suit in hopes of convincing people they had seen Bigfoot.
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How To Pick A Husband If You Want To Have Kids
There are actually only two choices: be a breadwinner or marry a breadwinner.
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15 Awesome, Useful Internet Tricks
If you accidentally close a tab on Google Chrome, press Control+Shift+T and it’ll come back from the dead.
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22 Things Women Should Be Required To Do
Work on being compassionate towards other women who have lived different lives than you and have made different choices.
