one of the european explorers who was friendly with the indians. many of the better relationships were based on the fur trade.
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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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the pain of losing something precious – be it happiness or material wealth – can be forgotten over time. but our missed opportunities never leave us, and every time they come back to haunt us, we ache. or perhaps what haunts us is that nagging thought that things might have turned out differently. because without that thought, we would put it down to fate and accept it.
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reno
a city in nevada where you can ski and play golf in the same day.
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tonopah
best place to go stargazing around the us.
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primus inter pares
first among equals.
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forgetting
a gift or superpower in some instances.
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marshall plan
even though turkey remained neutral until the final stages of world war 2, it also received help.
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airtag
apple's new tile killer. i wish it was wirelessly chargeable.
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benito mussolini
italian dictator who brought back order in italy using violence and his own private troops. his tyranny gorily ended like other dictatorships.
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keeping silent sometimes looks like broken glass pieces! they fill your mouth. if you remain silent, they hurt you; if you speak, they make you bleed…
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gobekli tepe
the world's first temple. approximately, 6000 years older than stonehenge
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lionel messi
the goat in soccer. feel lucky to watch him live at his prime at camp nou with my best friends in 2017 against sevilla. camp nou
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for the first time, they deleted donald trump's post about children and covid-19 due to false claim.
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hagia sophia