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ple·o·nasm
the use of more words than are necessary to convey meaning (e.g. see with one's eyes ), either as a fault of style or for emphasis.
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From Parable of the Talents:
Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.
To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen.
To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
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Via: All Things BBQ ..... Tom Jackson
Ingredients
Korean Buffalo Sauce:
Kimchi Ranch:
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What attracted you so much to Dick?
CARRÈRE
For me, he’s the Dostoyevsky of the twentieth century, the guy who understood it all. Actually, I am struck by his posthumous life—not only all the movies based on his books, but all the movies that aren’t, like The Matrix, The Truman Show, and Inception, that show reality disappearing behind its representation. It used to bother me that all these people didn’t admit their debt to Dick. But in the end, I think it’s great. What twenty years ago we called the world of Philip K. Dick is now just the world. We don’t need to cite him anymore. He’s won
Appiah urges readers to see the multiplicities of our identities, which both define our individuality and describe a commonality.
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noun.
a shadow or faint image of something:In the south, where the Tibetan plateau begins its gradual rise, we can just glimpse the hazy adumbration of its mountains above the undulating horizon
Portuguese cheese lingo.
curado: aged
queijo: cheese
queijo fresco: fresh cheese
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cabra: goat
ovelha: sheep
leite: milk
vaca: cow
We have created a Star Wars civilization, with Stone Age emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology. We thrash about. We are terribly confused by the mere fact of our existence, and a danger to ourselves and to the rest of life,” EO Wilson
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ob·lo·quy
/ˈäbləkwē/
noun
strong public criticism or verbal abuse.
"he endured years of contempt and obloquy"
Similar:
vilification
opprobrium
vituperation
condemnation
castigation
denunciation
abuse
criticism
censure
flak
defamation
denigration
disparagement
derogation
slander
revilement
reviling
calumny
calumniation
execration
excoriation
lambasting
upbraiding
bad press
character assassination
attack
invective
libel
insults
aspersions
mudslinging
bad-mouthing
tongue-lashing
stick
verbal
slagging off
contumely
animadversion
objurgation
Opposite:
praise
disgrace, especially that brought about by public abuse.
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Another figure who rises in that moment, and who remains central within Trump’s orbit, is Rudy Giuliani, who became mayor of New York in the 1990s after, interestingly enough, leading a riot of mostly off-duty New York policemen on the steps of City Hall to protest the Dinkins administration’s plans for an all-civilian police review board. Talk about an echo. The police riot at City Hall launched Giuliani into the NYC Mayor’s office. There he was again before the riot at the Capitol on stage with Trump calling for a “trial by combat.” #politics
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From: Karl Polanyi’s Great Transformation and the Countermovement to Capitalism
The outright abolition of democracy was the fascist project. In Polanyi’s view, it aimed to overcome society’s division into economic and political spheres by subordinating politics (democracy) to the unconstrained rule of capital.
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Polanyi argued that democracy was not a political regime of capitalist society. Rather, democracy and capitalism were separate systems, pulling in opposite directions.