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Word of the Day
turtling
  • The act or method of catching turtles; the business of a turtler.
  • Any slow progression or build-up.
  • in gaming, a defensive strategy of avoiding conflict, usually in a fixed position.
'Turtle' may be an alteration of 'tortoise,' which may come from the Late Latin 'tartaruchus,' of the underworld.
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The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces in nature, in society, in man himself.

- Leon Trotsky (1879 - 1940), Russian revolutionary.
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