عاد وحيداً و سعيداً ، مع ثلاثة كؤوسٍ موضوعةٍ أمامه على الطاوله : اثنان فارغان ، وواحد نصف مملوء و عليه آثار أحمر شفاه . رتَّبَ الكؤوس لتُشكِّلَ مثلثاً ، لكنه حين حاولَ ان يرتِّبها على شكلِ مربِّعٍ فشل . لماذا ؟ لأنَّ ثلاثة كؤوس يجب أن تكون قادرةً على تشكيلِ مربَّع . و شعر بالحزن .

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Tag: المدينة-والعمود

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حين تُشرِفُ على الموت تتغيَّر ؛ و حين تكون جندياً تتغيَّر ؛ و حين تتقدَّم في العمر تتغيَّر .

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Tag: المدينة-والعمود

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يبدو أن كثيرين من الجنوبيين يكتبون . ربما بسبب الحرب الأهلية . يجب الحصول على مأساة لكي نحصل على أدب .

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Tag: المدينة-والعمود

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Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

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...,I have never visited any city in the world where I was not told that I just missed the golden age. I seem never to be on time." Cyrus Sitema

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Tag: sarcastic-observations

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I say his version because there is no such thing as a true account of anything. Each sees the world from his own vantage point. Needless to say, a throne is not the best place from which to view anything except the backs of prostrate men.

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Tag: sarcastic-observations

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The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity—much less dissent.

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This separation was absolute in our original Republic. But the sky-godders do not give up easily. In the 1950s they actually got the phrase In God We Trust onto the currency, in direct violation of the First Amendment.

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Tag: first-amendment separation-of-church-and-state republic religious-nuts unconstitutional

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I'm a born-again atheist.

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Tag: humor atheism funny atheist born-again-atheist

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Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever. More people have been killed in the name of Jesus Christ than any other name in the history of the world.

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Tag: history death sanity theology immorality killed-for-christ killed-in-name-of-christ

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