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How To Break Up With Friends: From Friendshit to Friendsplit – a guide to ditching crappy companions

by Hannah Korrel

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“The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid of women.”
― Malala Yousafzai

tags: education, freedom-of-choice, girl-power, islam, women-s-rights

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“Once I had asked God for one or two extra inches in height, but instead he made me as tall as the sky, so high that I could not measure myself.”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

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“There's a long-standing debate in the media biz over whether the news outlets should give the public what it wants, or what it needs. This debate presupposes that media execs actually know what it wants or needs. And that there actually is a unitary "public.”
― Brooke Gladstone, The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone On The Media

tags: journalism, media

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“If one man can destroy everything, why can't one girl change it?”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

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“Now all I see is someone who's too afraid to get back out there. Everyone around you is going to give you a gentle push now and then, but never hard enough because they don't want to upset Poor Violet. You need shoving, not pushing. You need to jump back on that camel. Otherwise you're going to stay up on the ledge you've made for yourself.”
― Jennifer Niven

tags: all-the-bright-places-resilience

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