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Jason Pargin
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December 25 - December 27, 2017
Remember, the most powerful impression a person can make is that they don’t care if they make an impression.
Soare cu Dinti. It’s a Romanian phrase a social worker had taught her years ago—it meant a day that looks bright and inviting when viewed through a window, in which the air is actually cold enough to burn your face when you step out into it. It translated literally to “Sun with teeth,”
“You can’t focus on death, or failure. Otherwise you’re surrendering greatness to all the people too dumb to contemplate it.”
So I think all of this, the whole project with Raiden and this stupid dream about super powers, he thought what so many guys like him had thought—that with enough money and technology you could smooth out the flaws in society like ironing the wrinkles out of a shirt. Stamp out the crime like a comic book superhero and turn this place