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Alexander

@maintcraft

Industrial lament

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Joined September 2013
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Fortune presents gifts not according to the book When you expect whistles it's flutes When you expect flutes it's whistles Dead Can Dance youtube.com/watch?v=QOunrC2Q…
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Just roared above me… You’ve ever been to Marrakech?
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Marrakesh Express (2005 Remaster)

Marrakesh Express (2005 Remaster)

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I reflect. Do you?
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In the end, the most interesting thing about quotes is the people who quote them. Or the most uninteresting.
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I understand people are reserved, but being anonymous and reserved is reader abuse. The worst thing, of course, is to be boring, anonymous, and reserved on X. That’s outrageous :)
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Utterly alone
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Gloria in excelsis Deo youtu.be/18VMnwtlh9c?t=89
Вивальди. Глория. Хор Легенда

Вивальди. Глория. Хор Легенда

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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Take it easy youtu.be/5RtteFQTZgc?t=17
Take It Easy | Fawlty Towers | BBC Comedy Greats

Take It Easy | Fawlty Towers | BBC Comedy Greats

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Each nature acts according to its own properties: the human hand raises the young girl, the divine restores her to life; the human feet walk on the surface of the water, because the divinity has made it firm. It is not the human nature that raises Lazarus, it is not the divine power which sheds tears before his tomb,’ said St. John the Damascene. Vladimir Lossky / The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church
Nikita Pavlovets, Icon of the Resurrection of Lazarus, 1673 via @solas_na_greine

ALT Nikita Pavlovets, Icon of the Resurrection of Lazarus, 1673 via @solas_na_greine

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A Day In The Life - Remix

A Day In The Life - Remix

The Beatles · Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Deluxe Edition) · Song · 1967

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When people forget who they are supposed to be, they don’t seem pretentious at all.
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Best affordable wine around
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For we cannot live for a day without destroying the life of some other creature. A.W.
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I don’t know about you, but I have a mission: to find sleeper-cell accounts masquerading as casual deranged housewife accounts or human bots repeating stock phrases to reassure the center that everything is under control.
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Check your protocols anyway
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Spotted two more of the first type.
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My wife suggested, and it's a great series indeed. Le Bureau des Légendes
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And yet, they keep saying 'I know' even in English. (Don't say 'I know' at work. Better version: 'Yes, you're right ...')
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Finished. Fantastic series. Finally, you should see that serious intelligence work is done with files, analysis, and talking. Not by launching missiles from an Aston Martin and sleeping with sexy strangers.
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Take it easy youtu.be/5RtteFQTZgc?t=17
Take It Easy | Fawlty Towers | BBC Comedy Greats

Take It Easy | Fawlty Towers | BBC Comedy Greats

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Have you ever thought about how much chance has shaped some key events in your life? I mean, many things you’re born with may protect you from say poverty, kinda shape your life (family, country, good genes, etc.). And yet. For example, I met my wife by pure accident, and that’s more important than anything else that has happened to me.
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KT is my Chinese friend who owns a €1.2 million apartment in Hong Kong, a €1.5 million apartment in Estoril, and a house in London. KT: We tipped too much at the restaurant on Saturday… Me: OK. (The tip was €13.)
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KT: You've ever been to Asia? Me: No. KT: You should start with Japan. Then China and Hong Kong.
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KT: Give me your date of birth. I know a reliable fortune teller. Me: I don’t want to know my future. KT: ??? Me: If I’d known some facts many years ago about my life today, I would have been totally surprised, drawn completely wrong conclusions, and probably ruined everything.
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'Leo Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” has become one of the most famous, though intimidating, works in the contemporary library. The book’s terrible reputation stems mostly from the fact that most printed copies contain well over a thousand pages.' dailytimes.com.pk/771602/war…
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The answer could be found in the Tolstoy's Azores-Mallorca Travel Notes, dd. 1878 teapaw.org/maintcraft/status/1416…
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On the way back, while crossing the Serra de Tramuntana, Tolstoy made a strange record in his diary, preoccupied with his new experience: “There was a 22 years window in which a samurai could have sent a printing telegraph facsimile message to Abraham Lincoln… Fascinating.”
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Just booked my next trip to Azores, to follow the Tolstoy’s routes again
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Monday is a proper day to start drinking good wine.
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