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chronic backup
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love
"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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nusr-et
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euthyphro dilemma
is something good because god commands it to be good or does god command it because it is good? –socrates
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twitter
"we found that 47% of local trends in turkey and 20% of global trends are fake, created from scratch by bots. between june 2015 and september 2019, we uncovered 108,000 bot accounts involved, the biggest bot dataset reported in a single paper. our research is the first to uncover the manipulation of twitter trends at this scale," elmas continued."
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hamburger
is derived from the city of hamburg/germany.
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beer
liquid bread. drink it from a glass. why you should drink beer from a glass
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knowledge
knowledge is power *
that's why some people don't want to share it with anyone. -
tory
colonists loyal to britain.
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jamestown
starving settlers in jamestown colony resorted to cannibalism
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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... -
fa sho
for sure.
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nevada
the driest state in the us.
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respect
respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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tonopah
best place to go stargazing around the us.
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bitcoin
bitcoin is the solution to a problem. started trading it in 2016.
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justice
justice is like health, you think about it only when you don't have it.