(see: #679)
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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 r…
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arthur zimmermann
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remember the alamo
(see: #635)
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sacagawea
she is credited with helping meriwether lewis and william clark avoid armed conflict with indian tribes. her husband and infant son traveled with her. image
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jamestown
starving settlers in jamestown colony resorted to cannibalism
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twitter
a social network that has the most impact on politics.
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donald trump
he has been kicked off of twitter
twitter's statement
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university of nevada, reno
(see: #449)
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turkish delight
one of the cheapest gifts that can be bought before leaving turkey. turkish people never eat it though.
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canis lupus familiaris
dog.
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nevada
the driest state in the us.
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art
art is a beautiful lie that makes people see the truth*
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texas
is derived from the word "teyshas" (meaning friends) in native american.
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anatolia
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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catalhoyuk
(see: #974)
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humor
is the enemy of radicalism.