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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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users' confessions
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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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google maps
gaza – the palestinian territory – is blurred. image
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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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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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embargo
is a ban on trade with another nation.
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remember the alamo
(see: #635)
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reservation
is an area of public land set aside for use by a certain group, such as an american indian tribe.
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american civil war
the world's first modern war.
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users' favorite quotes
the most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. these persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. beautiful people do not just happen.
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signal (app)
the most secure messaging app that was recommended by elon musk and edward snowden
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jamestown
starving settlers in jamestown colony resorted to cannibalism
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history
story of people.
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washington crossing the delaware
i didn't know it was a really big painting until i saw it at the metropolitan museum of art.
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malcolm x
human rights activist who strove to educate the public about injustices done to black people in america.
"if violence is wrong in america, violence is wrong abroad. if it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it is wrong for america to draft us, and make us violent abroad in defense of her. and if it is right for america to draft us, and teach us how to be violent in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country."