the world's first city settlement (catalhoyuk) and the first political entity in the world (the hittite empire) rose up on the lands of anatolia.
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"i opened the book, picking a passage at random, and came across a tale about alexander the great. the emperor, as the story went, received as a gift some wondrous glass dishes. he liked the gifts very much, but smashed them all nonetheless. "why? are they not beautiful?" he was asked. "precisely because of that," he answered. "they are so beautiful that it would be hard for me to lose them. and with time they would break, one by one. and i would be sorrier than i am now."
the tale was naive but it still astonished me. its lesson was bitter: one should renounce everything he might ever begin to love, because loss and disappointment are inevitable. we must renounce love in order not to lose i…
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anatolia
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catalhoyuk
(see: #974)
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sola dosis facit venenum
the dose makes the poison.
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pubg mobile
bugg
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sus
suspicious.
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california
people in california are leaving their trunks open to dissuade thieves
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humor
is the enemy of radicalism.
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amirite
am i right?
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love
trying to be the best version of yourself.
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pos
piece of shit.
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tonopah
best place to go stargazing around the us.
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turkey
according to umit isin*, turkey is the biggest open air museum of the world.
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opera gx
opera (browser)'s useful and versatile web browser for gamers.
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random midnight ramblings
sometimes i speak to men and women just as a little girl speaks to her doll. she knows, of course, that the doll does not understand her, but she creates for herself the joy of communication through a pleasant and conscious self-deception.
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sobremesa
my favorite spanish word. it is the time you spend at the table after you've finished eating.