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“The year was marked by ominous signs: fires blazed in the sky, there was a violent earthquake, and a cow talked – there was a rumour that a cow had talked the previous year, but nobody believed it: this year they did. Nor was this all: it rained lumps of meat. Thousands of birds (we are told) seized and devoured the pieces in mid–air, while what fell to the ground lay scattered about for several days without going putrid. ”

--- Titus Livy. “The Early History of Rome.” iBooks.

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Сначала трамповата дружно одобряет, когда лживое хуйло на пустом месте обрушает национальную валюту и угрожает долгосрочным экономическим связям частных американских компаний с Мексикой. А потом тупо не может сообразить, почему профессор экономики из Мексики считает трамповату таким же хуйлом, как и их т.н. президент.

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“Now I would solicit the particular attention of those numerous people who imagine that money is everything in this world, and that rank and ability are inseparable from wealth: let them observe that Cincinnatus, the one man in whom Rome reposed all her hope of survival, was at that moment working a little three–acre farm (now known as the Quinctian meadows) west of the Tiber, just opposite the spot where the shipyards are today. A mission from the city found him at work on his land – digging a ditch, maybe, or ploughing.”

--- Titus Livy. “The Early History of Rome.”

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A functor from Crazy to Stupid should be modeled as a forgetful functor.

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18 Operae pretium est audire qui omnia prae divitiis humana spernunt neque
19 honori magno locum neque virtuti putant esse, nisi ubi effuse afluant opes.
20 Spes unica imperii populi Romani, L. Quinctius trans Tiberim, contra eum
21 ipsum locum ubi nunc navalia sunt, quattuor iugerum colebat agrum, quae
22 prata Quinctia vocantur. Ibi ab legatis—seu fossam fodiens palae innixus,
23 seu cum araret, operi certe, id quod constat, agresti intentus—salute data in
24 vicem redditaque rogatus ut, quod bene verteret ipsi reique publicae, togatus
25 mandata senatus audiret, admiratus rogitansque 'satin salve?'

http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/livius/livy4.pdf