this art movement started with pablo picasso's les demoiselles d'avignon painting. saw it in the collection of the museum of modern art. image
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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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cubism
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swastika
main symbol of adolf hitler's nazi party. it is also used in asian religions.
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turkey
its citizens live to make president erdogan, his family, and oligarchs richer.
example:
"according to the world bank's figures, five turkish construction companies, the limak holding, cengiz holding, kolin, kalyon and mng holdings are among the world's top ten tender-winning companies."
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the unexamined life is not worth living.
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alexander hamilton
he is often credited with saving the united states from the huge debt it got into to pay for the revolutionary war.
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tvi
tactical vehicle intervention.
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ez
easy.
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honduras
latin america's deadliest place to be a woman. https://youtu.be/aaWIiAFvZy8
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turkey
(see: #849)