"I don't have a dollar to my name / An acre of land, a troop to command, a dollop of fame / All I have's my honour, a tolerance for pain" – "Helpless" from Lin-Manuel Miranda's "Hamilton"
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"And if one would listen very carefully, he would hear the duck quacking inside the wolf, because the wolf, in his hurry, had swallowed her alive." – Peter and the Wolf, Prokofiev
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To name but one: the utterly useless and irrelevant response to the issue of Hong Kong by my Dem representative Dan Goldman... AT LEAST MENTION HONG KONG ONCE YOU...
"I'm laughin' in the face of casualties and sorrow /
For the first time, I'm thinkin' past tomorrow" - My Shot, Hamilton, Lin Manuel Miranda
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If anyone who's into WSL not been on Twitter, Emma Hayes said that player-player relationships are problematic in a press conference lol, which besides galvanising our players probably has also made Jess Carter fucking pissed, lol. Should be fun tomorrow.
"But afterwards there occurred violent earthquakes and floods... and the island of Atlantis in like manner disappeared in the depths of the sea." — Timaeus by Plato
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Most of the cards that I considered OP back then aren't even good now and they're straight up not even coded available in the game even in extended like what
This guy was great and even had an official deck made for actual decent level play in BW era, gets one shot by like half of today's cards...
"Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot." — Carl Sagan
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While we still have this as a fact:
Queen Elizabeth II is still a part of Hong Kong's laws. Yes, she's been dead for over a year. Yes, I do not mean King Charles. Though one could maybe argue it means Camilla now since it says Queen / Her Majesty (it specifies Queen later).
