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1. Every person you meet during your course of life isn't met in vain. Every day we meet new people and every meeting gives us something important afterwards. Someone tries us, someone uses and gives a lesson, someone helps to know new skills and someone makes us better - and it' the most valuable thing.

Ingredients:
- 2 apples
- 2 raw carrots
- mayonnaise 
- onion
- cheese. 

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1. Harry Potter and JK Rowling (the author) share the same birthday of July 31st.

2. Fred and George Weasley were born on April Fools Day

3. In one of the first drafts Ron Weasley swore like a sailor, but JK Rowling’s publisher made her cut the cussing out.

Anti-cellulite scrub for slenderness

All genius is simple - mix ground coffee, cinnamon, some salt, olive oil, tangerine essential oil (or orange/lemon) and water. If you like soap foam, add some shower gel. Scrub your body with this mixture actively, massage it. Wash off. After such a scrub you don't need to moisturize your skin because olive oil moistens and nourishes the skin perfectly. The result is no cellulite but smooth and elastic skin. 

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It's easy to cook: take 1 glass of warm water (till 40C), 1 tsp honey and 2 tbs lemon juice. Take in three times a day before the meals. The content of vitamin C helps to get rid of residues and raises the immune system. 

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1. While Christmas is mostly celebrated in U.S. popular culture as a consumerist holiday, its origins are actually in self denial. Christmas itself is what is known as a ‘feast day’ which means it’s traditionally preceded by fasting, sometimes as long as 40 days of it, with Christmas being the beginning of three days of celebration and, you guessed it, feasting. There are people all over the world fasting right now.

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Producer’s note: Someone on Quora asked: What are some good “mini habits” to practice each day? Here is one of the best answers that’s been pulled from the thread.

Since my cancer diagnosis almost three years ago, establishing a few good habits, both big and small has helped me be happier and healthier than I was before my cancer diagnosis.

Netflix / Mad Men

I’ve put up with more than my share of douchebags in my life. Especially douchebags who assume I’m too emotional/shallow/stupid to hold up my end of an argument for no other reason than because I’m a woman.

Girls, that's just a discovery! Only within 15 minutes your face looks like in a magazine. The recipe (for chin and nose):
0.5 tsp gelatin;
1 tsp milk (or water);
0.5 activated carbon pill;
tough brush.

Ingredients:
- strong black coffee with sugar - 1/2 glass
- 500 g cookies 
- 1 glass of sugar
- 4 eggs
- cocoa powder - 1 tablespoon 
- 250 g butter
- vanilla sugar - 1 teaspoon.

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Imagine you have this well inside of you which is full of ideas, philosophies, thoughts unique only to you. Imagine there’s talent in so much of what you do, that you feel possessed by your need to share the interior of your mind with others. Imagine you have a drive, a singular ambition to use the contents of your brain and your heart to shift the world if only in some small way. Imagine you yearn deeply for impact and power and wealth and influence and fame and acclaim. Imagine your interests lay in being visionary, inventive, different, interesting.

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When your mother has always been sick, it means you learn to appreciate every milestone you share together. It means you hug her like she is the best friend you’ll ever know. Because she is. And you know eventually, when the two of you can no longer talk on the phone about stupid celebrity gossip, when she is a picture on the mantel you can no longer touch, she will still be the best friend you’ve ever known. You will hug her memory every night before you sleep.

It's the best weight loss salads.

Ingredients:

- 2 raw carrots
- 1 apples
- 2 bell peppers
- 3-4 tbs low-calorie yogurt 
- dill
- parsley. 
Weight loss salads

Ingredients:

500 g potatos
100 g onion
500 g champignons
400 g chicken breast fillet 
100 g 0.5% milk
50 g 10% creams 
100 g cheese 
20 g flour 

/sites/default/files/ladies-lifestyle/2-12/5d9383b43c70.jpgPeople have frequently asked me how to pack. Not sure if it comes with the territory, but I have a suitcase for months at a time since I was a baby. My Father was a packing genius and I like to think that I am pretty darn good at managing to pack a great deal into a tiny space.

Confusion often digs it’s pesky little claws into our minds and just doesn’t want to let go! Breathe … take a deep, slow breath. Fill your lungs to their fullest capacity and then slowly release, imagining the toxins that have nestled in the lower portion of your lungs finally expelling, being replaced by fresh air.

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Recently, while minding my own business at a social event, a guy who I did not know approached me to inform me that I had a “bitch face.” This is not the first time this has happened. Actually, it tends to happen frequently enough for it to be a joke among my social circle, and especially when I’m not actively smiling. (A “condition” known to many as resting bitchface syndrome or chronic bitch face.)

The only part I like about walking through the freezing cold is getting into the warmth. I flash my hands over a candle, and the heat from the tiny flames warms them. I tease the fire with my finger tips, and turn my hand over, to warm the back of my hand. My exposed palm is instantly cold again. I like to wrap my hands around a hot mug. Not a warm mug. A mug with scalding hot tea whose temperature seeps through cracked China to warm my hands.

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Proenza Schouler’s grommeted ankle-strap sandal.

Designers must have been listening to a lot of rock music for inspiration this season. For spring ’16, classic footwear shapes toughen up with silver buckles, grommets and studs.

Gastroenterologists stated 7 weighty reasons why you should start your day with lemon water. 

It will take only 2 minutes to make this "Elixir of life", but how many advantages you would get!