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Aries will never admit that they’re wrong, but they’ll crumble inside once they realize they are.

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“There’s an energy crisis happening, all right: a human one.”

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“All fiction is largely autobiographical and much autobiography is, of course, fiction,” famously said English crime writer, P.D. James.

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“Freedom is a means to an end, not an end in and of itself. When you have no end and make freedom an ultimate goal, anything goes.”

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The discourse of what constitutes a pretty girl is paradoxically both exhausted and insufficient.

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If your favorite show is 30 Rock, you read Thought Catalog, and you wear jeans and a t-shirt at work while you stare a computer screen all day, you are quite likely to have a very different 5,000-word speaking vocabulary from someone whose favorite show is South Park, favorite site is Bleacher Report, and wears a uniform all day while they operate heavy machinery.

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What is critical? It is a will — a desire — to question everything, to root out one’s own assumptions, to ask if this or that feeling is a feeling worth having, whence it comes, if it should be pursued or not.

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The stakes are too high for emotionally-driven posturing.