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“The truth rarely makes sense when you omit key details.” “You can’t defeat a man who commands the will of others.” “Real power comes from undetected influence.” “The world functions on a higher level when it is controlled.”
“All that time I spent posing I was trying to actually do something good to make up for all the pain and suffering that we caused. Trying to be more than just a trained killer.” – Natasha Brief Bite: The clearest path to redemption from yesterday’s infamy is the pursuit of good.
“That gas, the counteragent, it was synthesized in secret by an older widow from Melina’s generation. I was on a mission to retrieve it, and she exposed me and I killed the widow that freed me.” – Yelena Brief Bite: The best missions are conducted in the shadows.
“The thing you do when you’re fighting. The – like, the, this thing you do when you whip your hair when you’re fighting with the arm and the hair, and you do like fighting pose. It’s a fighting pose. You’re a total poser.” – Yelena Brief Bite: There is poser button in the algorithm of the finest fighter
“It’s my network of widows that help me control the scales of power. One command, the oil and stock markets crumble. One command and a quarter of the planet will starve. My widows can start and end wars. They can make and break kings.” – Natasha Brief Bite: Ultimately, it is about the command of One!
“That’s what happens when the Red Room gives you an involuntary hysterectomy. They kind of just go in and rip out all of your reproductive organs. They just get right in there and they chop them all away. Everything out, so you can’t have babies.” – Yelena Brief Bite: Totalitarianism is brutal. Pure and simple.
The ancients believed that the patient dog eats the fattest bone but we called the idea foolish and replaced it with the patient dog eats no bone! Many people who live in Lagos will remember that when the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system started and the big buses dotted many parts of the state, many of them were branded with advertising messages. ‘The patient dog…
Why am I not surprised that you are hearing the voice of staying power as former President Ibrahim Babangida clocks 80 years today, at the same period that the Taliban return to power having taken over Kabul, capital of Afghanistan? I am not hearing voices I meant that as a compliment. Then make your communication clear. You must set forth with the right words or…
How many people have considered how the creation of the sight imitate life in its suddenness, its unpredictableness, indifference or apathy? How many are thankful that their cars are not among the thousands of damaged cars in the lot? Or that they do not have loved ones among the over 300persons that lost their lives in the floods? How many realize that those who ignore…
“Please, please. There is a reason why I’m telling you this, ok? Trust me. I am reaching for fish. Oh, I lose balance. Ah! Splash. My hands go in the river. In this weather, frostbite sets in quick. My father, he go toilet on my hands.” – Alexei Brief Bite: Losing one’s balance is a strong possibility while one is fishing.