The modern king has become a vermiform appendix - useless when quiet, when obtrusive in danger of removal
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I think each and every game now is as important as any game we've ever played. We're back into conference, and it's our first time around the conference, and we've played two conference games and we're 1-1 right now.Surely the men who submit and the women who submit, and the believing men and the believing women, and the obeying men and the obeying women, and the truthful men and the truthful women, and the patient men and the patient women and the humble men and the humble women, and the almsgiving men and the almsgiving women, and the fasting men and the fasting women, and the men who guard their private parts and the women who guard, and the men who remember Allah much and the women who remember-- Allah has prepared for them forgiveness and a mighty reward.
There does not reach Allah their flesh nor their blood, but to Him is acceptable the guarding (against evil) on your part thus has He made them subservient to you, that you may magnify Allah because He has guided you aright and give good news to those who do good (to others).
All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble.
It's not even that I would've gotten into trouble, it's that trouble would've found me in the projects.
In general, given a choice between a device designed to be dedicated for a specific task (or a few tasks) and a general-purpose device that addresses the same needs -- without seeming like a clunky Swiss Army Knife device brick -- I'll take the general-purpose device every time.
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