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“Some people ate less food less often when they each had a home than they now do as hobos.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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“He was walking one wet night through a desolate region of the City. A wagon trundled by, drenching his legs with a fine spray. He turned aside, and a maze of dingy streets opened before him. The sky between the slanting rooftops hung black as a slab of jet. Then a waning moon rode clear of the storm clouds. He had penetrated an old commercial sector of the City where winding lanes lay lampless, flanked by dilapidated warehouses. Every window was boarded up or shattered; too many doorways opened onto musty darkness. With every turn of the black road the same scene lay revealed: row upon row of grey, sagging eaves; scarred and battered gates; rusting fences; sickle moons in every shallow remnant of the rain. He seemed to be shedding the present with every step, moving backwards through time. It seemed that he was acting out some part prearranged, utterly without will. "The White Road”

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Book:The White Road
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“「哈哈哈哈⋯⋯」沈華北大笑起來，失重的虛弱使他站立不穩，但在精神上他已亢奮到極點，「長城和金字塔都是完全失敗的超級工程，前者沒能擋住北方騎馬民族的入侵，後者也沒能使其中的法老木乃伊復活，但時間使這些都無關重要，只有凝結在其上的人類精神永遠光彩照人！」他指指身後高高聳立的地球隧道南極站，「與這條偉大的地心長城相比，你們這些哭哭啼啼的孟姜女是多麼可憐！哈哈哈哈⋯⋯」”

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Book:地球大炮（Chinese Edition）
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“The American elite ... is almost beyond redemption. Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of discerning right from wrong. Everything can be explained away, especially by journalists. Life is one great moral mush -- sophistry washed down with Chardonnay.”

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Book:The Secret Life of Bill Clinton: The Unreported Stories
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“Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.”

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Author:Calvin Coolidge
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“I think the idea that the hedge fund manager gets lower taxes than the taxi driver or the physics professor is insane. The legislators who leave that policy in place are derelict in their duties to be rational and fair. There are plenty of them in both political parties. It's totally outrageous.”

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Author:Charlie Munger
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“The world is full of educated derelicts.”

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Author:Calvin Coolidge
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“There is nothing more common than unsuccessful men with talent.”

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Author:Joe Strummer
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“Freedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that 'Oh, I don't get involved in politics,' as if that makes someone cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable.”

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Book:When You Ride Alone You Ride with Bin Laden: What the Government Should be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism
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“Other men puffed, snorted, and splashed. George passed through the ocean with the silent dignity of a torpedo. Other men swallowed water, here a mouthful, there a pint, anon, maybe, a quart or so, and returned to the shore like foundering derelicts. George's mouth had all the exclusiveness of a fashionable club. His breast stroke was a thing to see and wonder at. When he did the crawl, strong men gasped. When he swam on his back, you felt that that was the only possible method of progression.”

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Author:P. G. Wodehouse
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“Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”

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Author:Calvin Coolidge
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“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”

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Author:Calvin Coolidge
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“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.”

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Author:Calvin Coolidge
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“This junkyard is an environmental nightmare, strewn with tree stumps, old tires, derelict vehicles, scrap metal and other waste. This owner may be failing to properly dispose of vehicle fluids and other contaminating chemical-laden trash, possibly imperiling groundwater and wells. He is junking the law as well as the environment.”

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Author:Richard Blumenthal
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“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”

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Author:Calvin Coolidge
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“The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of discerning right from wrong. Everything can be explained away, especially by journalists. Life is one great moral mush--sophistry washed down with Chardonnay. The ordinary citizens, thank goodness, still adhere to absolutes.... It is they who have saved the republic from creeping degradation while their 'betters' were derelict.”

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Author:Charles Dickens
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“Harmony comes gradually to a pilot and his plane. The wing does not want so much to fly true as to tug at the hands that guide it; the ship would rather hunt the wind than lay her nose to the horizon far ahead. She has a derelict quality in her character; she toys with freedom and hints at liberation, but yields her own desires gently.”

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Book:West with the Night
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