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That she could face death was not a surprise to anyone. In 2006, a judge sentenced Rishawi to hang for her part in Jordan’s worst-ever terrorist attack: three simultaneous hotel bombings that killed sixty people, most of them guests at a
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I don't recall this event. Interesting how we either tune this out or (most likely) barely see it on the news due to our Western bias.
“Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.”
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“Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
― Self Reliance
― Self Reliance
“The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
An evil soul producing holy witness
Is like a villain with a smiling cheek,
A goodly apple rotten at the heart.
O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!”
― The Merchant of Venice
An evil soul producing holy witness
Is like a villain with a smiling cheek,
A goodly apple rotten at the heart.
O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!”
― The Merchant of Venice
“There was no way I could contemplate taking the England job. Can you imagine me doing that? A Scotsman? I always joked that I would take the position and relegate them: make them the 150th rated country in the world, with Scotland 149.”
― ALEX FERGUSON: My Autobiography: The sensational million copy bestselling memoir from the greatest football manager of all time
― ALEX FERGUSON: My Autobiography: The sensational million copy bestselling memoir from the greatest football manager of all time
“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...”
― The Kite Runner
― The Kite Runner
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