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“「如果有群山賊只治理村落一個星期，那這些傢伙大概不到一天就會讓整個村子傾家蕩產；但是如果治理一年，他們就會等到秋收的時候，還會讓村民活下去；如果治理十年，他們就會制定計劃，因為不能大家一起餓死，所以會給村民食物和衣服；如果要治理三十年，他們就會關心要不要生孩子的問題。治理三十年的山賊，那就是國家啊！」 「既然要在山賊底下生活，那治理時間長的山賊比較好，對嗎？」 瑪麗如此問時，張益德咧嘴一笑，給了模稜兩可的答案：「啊，話是這樣說沒錯，但妳不要到處去嚷嚷說是爸爸教妳的。」”

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Book:Your Republic Is Calling You
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“父親從鯽魚的嘴裡拔出釣鉤，將鯽魚丟進桶裡。好大的一條鯽魚。 「你看，魚從水裡撈出來以後，就不再翻騰了吧？」 「有不是這樣的魚吧？」 父親又把釣竿甩進江裡，一尾鯽魚在乾水桶裡掙扎著。 「沒有，魚如果沒有水，魚鰓就會不停開闔，翻騰一陣子之後死掉。我在蓋水庫的時候，有時要竪起棟梁，將好水抽進隧道裡，唯有這樣，才能澆灌水泥。來不及逃走的魚都會死在水底，其他一起作業的同事高興極了，紛紛抓魚回去煮湯。即便如此，數量之多也吃不完，最後就腐爛了。因為腐爛，泛出了臭味，真是噁心啊！吃下去的東西好像都要吐出來了。我想說的就是，你不要成為一條魚，要成為青蛙，在水裡能游泳，出來以後也能跳躍⋯⋯聽懂了嗎？」”

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Book:Your Republic Is Calling You
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“I was enticed like a fly to a pot of honey by something reminiscent of a religious cult offering salvation. We were not urged to commit collective suicide, because the Day of Judgment was nigh, but to give up our individuality for the benefit of a collective intoxication, at the heart of which was a Little Red Book that had replaced all other forms of enlightenment. It contained all wisdom, the answers to all questions, expressions of all the social and political visions the world needed in order to progress from its present state and install once and for all paradise on earth, rather than a paradise in some remote kingdom in the sky. But what we didn’t even begin to understand was that the sayings comprised living words. They were not inscribed in stone. They described reality. We read the sayings without interpreting them. As if the Little Red Book was a dead catechism, a revolutionary liturgy.”

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Book:The Man from Beijing
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