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“Attack with aggression, but always have a plan of retreat.”
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“I asked the wind: "Why do you serve Solomon?"
It said: "Because Ahmad's name is engraved on his seal!"
باد را گفتم: سلیمان را چرا خدمت کنی
گفت: از آن کش نام احمد نقش بر خاتم بود”
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It said: "Because Ahmad's name is engraved on his seal!"
باد را گفتم: سلیمان را چرا خدمت کنی
گفت: از آن کش نام احمد نقش بر خاتم بود”
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“Goodnight my kitten.”
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“Play is a very good test of a man's patience or impatience. The greatest advantage in gambling comes from not playing at all. But there is very great utility in it as a test of patience, for a good man will refrain from anger even at the moment of rising from the game in defeat.”
― The Book on Games of Chance: The 16th-Century Treatise on Probability
― The Book on Games of Chance: The 16th-Century Treatise on Probability
“I know time. I know time differently now. I know it because I am unlearning it. I know it because the baby is teaching me that the rhythms of the clock and the calendar, and even the most elemental diurnal patterns – they don’t go without saying: they are acquired, if not violently imposed. It is a lived and not an abstract form of knowledge that comes from living alongside a beginner – the way the days can all of a sudden feel like they're undivided, divided by nothing, only water.”
― The Long Form
― The Long Form
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