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No one seems to know exactly why, but Diocletian, two years before the end of his highly effective reign, abruptly ordered the most vicious of all persecutions of the Christians. For eighteen years Diocletian, although himself a convinced and practicing pagan, paid no attention to the growing Christian power. His court was full of Christian officials, and his wife, Prisca, and his daughter, Valeria, were considered Christians.
When the waitress brought our meals, I congratulated her on her pregnancy. “You must be overjoyed,” I said.
“Not exactly,” she responded. “It was an accident.”
As she walked away, I couldn’t help but be struck by her frankness. Her casual remark was a reminder about the accidental elements that play into both our arrival into life... and our departure into death. Here was a woman, having a child by accident that she surely would come to love. As for me, through the accident of cancer I’d be leaving three children to grow up without my love.
I knew what I was doing that day. Under the ruse of giving an academic lecture, I was trying to put myself in a bottle that would one day wash up on the beach for my children. If I were a painter, I would have painted for them. If I were a musician, I would have composed music. But I am a lecturer. So I lectured.
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We knew right from the start: None of this is a replacement for a living parent. But engineering isn’t about perfect solutions; it’s about doing the best you can with limited resources. Both the lecture and this book are my attempts to do exactly that.
Jealousy is a sharp, stabbing thing. It makes you feel small and mean, especially when you know the other person deserves exactly what they got.
Kıskançlık keskin, saplanan bir şeydir. Özellikle karşınızdaki insanın elde ettiği şeyi tam anlamıyla hak ettiğini bildiğinizde, sizi küçük ve adi hissettirir.
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