judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
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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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university of nevada, reno
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turkish delight
one of the cheapest gifts that can be bought before leaving turkey. turkish people never eat it though.
the way some of my american friends call me... -
lionel messi
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batman
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gli
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failed state
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facebook
for the first time, they deleted donald trump's post about children and covid-19 due to false claim.
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red alert 2
still the best strategy game of all time. when i was a kid, i used to play red alert 2 and football manager only. played with south korea, france, and the us.
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hagia sophia
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tiktok
probably the most successful chinese platform regarding data collection from the users who live outside of china. rumors say that microsoft in talks to buy tiktok or trump will ban tiktok from the us.
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galatasaray
the most successful soccer team in turkey. their goal is to beat the non-turkish teams.
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burger king
one of the biggest fast food chains in the world. even though they have good deals, it is impossible to order on their mobile app * and it never processes your order. gave me a headeche. then, i stopped trying.
in the us: mcdonald's > burger king
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lmk
let me know.
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fa sho
for sure.