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David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants (Malcolm
Gladwell)
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A Series of Unfortunate Events 10 - The Slippery Slope (Snicket, Lemony)
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A Series of Unfortunate Events 10 - The Slippery Slope (Snicket, Lemony)
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A man of my acquaintance once wrote a poem called “The Road Less Traveled,”
describing a journey he took through the woods along a path most travelers never
used. The poet found that the road less traveled was peaceful but quite lonely, and
he was probably a bit nervous as he went along, because if anything happened on the
road less traveled, the other travelers would be on the road more frequently
traveled and so couldn't hear him as he cried for help. Sure enough, that poet is
now dead.
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“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in
trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the
unreasonable man.”
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Brer rabbit
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The fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
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A confederacy of dunces (John Kennedy Toole)
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sodomites, drug addicts, fetishists, onanists, pornogra-phers,

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the wind's twelve quarters (ursula k. le guin)
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the wind's twelve quarters (ursula k. le guin)
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Cryptonomicon (Neal Stephenson)
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The arrowheads are human things broken loose from humanity, their organic parts
perished, their mineral forms enduring—crystals of intention. It is not the form
but the lethal intent that demands the attention of a selfish mind.
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Poor Economics (Abhijit Banerjee)
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Instead of raging against their destiny, they have made things tolerable by
reducing their standards. But they donâ€™t necessarily reduce their standards by
cutting out luxuries and concentrating on necessities; more often it is the other
way aroundâ€”the more natural way, if you come to think of itâ€”hence the fact that
in a decade of unparalleled depression, the consumption of all cheap luxuries has
increased.34
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battle royale (koushun takami)
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Guns, germs, and steel: the fates of human societies (Jared M. Diamond)
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said, as if it were only natural. Then he asked, "So let's

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Lords and Ladies (Terry Pratchett)
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Lords and Ladies (Terry Pratchett)
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Well, in that case he goes up to the smallest guard and says, ‘Tell me which is the
door to freedom if you don’t want to see the color of your kidneys and incidentally
I’m walking through it behind you, so if you’re trying for the Mr. Clever Award
just remember who’s going through it first.’” “No, no, no!” “Sounds logical to me,”
said Ridcully. “Very good thinking.” “But you haven’t got a weapon!” “Yes I have. I
wrested it from the guard while he was considering the question,” said Casanunda.
“Clever,” said Ridcully. “Now that, Mr. Stibbons, is logical thought.
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China: A History: From the Great Qing Empire through The People's Republic of
China, (1644 - 2009) (Tanner, Harold M.)
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10:14:42
Only in modern times, under the Qing dynasty (1644–1911), did a government based in
China Proper build an empire that included the entire Inner Asian periphery and the
island of Taiwan.
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The Inner Asian periphery includes Tibet, Xinjiang, Ningxia, Inner Mongolia, and
Manchuria.
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In 1684, the Qing government incorporated the island as a prefecture of Fujian
province, thus marking the beginning of Taiwan’s administration from the mainland.
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Only in modern times, under the Qing dynasty (1644–1911), did a government based in
China Proper build an empire that included the entire Inner Asian periphery and the
island of Taiwan.
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Tibetan religious figures, particularly the Dalai Lamas, had exercised tremendous
political influence over the Mongols ever since their mass conversion to Tibetan
Buddhism during the Ming.
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In this way, they joined the outer defense perimeter of the Qing Empire. Tribute-
paying states like Nepal, Burma, Annam, and Korea sent “tribute missions” to the
Qing court according to a regular schedule.
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The Qianlong emperor’s fictitious “victories” in Burma, Annam, and Nepal were
possible because the rulers of all three states agreed to enter into tributary
relations with the Qing. In this way, they joined the outer defense perimeter of
the Qing Empire.
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2014 20:55:12
Weak government, low levels of taxation, and a reliance on local elites and social
organizations to deliver goods and services are not necessarily bad things. But
they did leave the Qing government underfunded and poorly prepared to deal with
major internal challenges.
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2014 12:32:28
Ethnic tension, poverty, environmental pressure, religious sectarianism, and

government ineptitude combined to create a major rebellion at the close of the 18th
century.
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2014 13:05:41
Population growth, environmental exhaustion, climate change, and migration were the
fundamental causes underlying the 19th-century rebellions.
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2014 01:55:28
Russia helped the Qing to suppress Yakub Beg, but for a price. Russia occupied
Xinjiang’s strategically important Ili Valley and put itself in a position to
dominate Xinjiang’s economy through the mid-20th century.
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The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
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It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than being
talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say when he was a
boy of eighteen,
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Look at the successful men in any of the learned professions. How perfectly hideous
they are!
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A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say when he was a
boy of eighteen, and as a natural consequence he always looks absolutely
delightful.
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they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.
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There is a fatality about all physical and intellectual distinction, the sort of
fatality that seems to dog through history the faltering steps of kings. It is
better not to be different from one's fellows. The ugly and the stupid have the
best of it in this world.
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If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.
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They can sit at their ease and gape at the play.

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There is a fatality about all physical and intellectual distinction, the sort of
fatality that seems to dog through history the faltering steps of kings. It is
better not to be different from one's fellows. The ugly and the stupid have the
best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they
know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.
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Your rank and wealth, Harry; my brains, such as they are—my art, whatever it may be
worth; Dorian Gray's good looks—we shall all suffer for what the gods have given
us, suffer terribly."
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You seem to forget that I am married, and the one charm of marriage is that it
makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
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You never say a moral thing, and you never do a wrong thing. Your cynicism is
simply a pose."
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"Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the
trade-name of the firm. That is all."
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I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the
same faults as ourselves. I quite sympathize with the rage of the English democracy
against what they call the vices of the upper orders. The masses feel that
drunkenness, stupidity, and immorality should be their own special property, and
that if any one of us makes an ass of himself, he is poaching on their preserves.
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I quite sympathize with the rage of the English democracy against what they call
the vices of the upper orders. The masses feel that drunkenness, stupidity, and
immorality should be their own special property, and that if any one of us makes an
ass of himself, he is poaching on their preserves.
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I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good
characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.
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"Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for
publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions."
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Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who
know love's tragedies."
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Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it
is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."
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He played with the idea and grew wilful; tossed it into the air and transformed it;
let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with fancy and winged it with
paradox. The praise of folly, as he went on, soared into a philosophy, and
philosophy herself became young, and catching the mad music of pleasure, wearing,
one might fancy, her wine-stained robe and wreath of ivy, danced like a Bacchante
over the hills of life, and mocked the slow Silenus for being sober. Facts fled
before her like frightened forest things. Her white feet trod the huge press at
which wise Omar sits, till the seething grape-juice rose round her bare limbs in
waves of purple bubbles, or crawled in red foam over the vat's black, dripping,
sloping sides. It was an extraordinary improvisation. He felt that the eyes of
Dorian Gray were fixed on him, and the consciousness that amongst his audience
there was one whose temperament he wished to fascinate seemed to give his wit
keenness and to lend colour to his imagination. He was brilliant, fantastic,
irresponsible.
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We practical men like to see things, not to read about them. The Americans are an
extremely interesting people. They are absolutely reasonable. I think that is their
distinguishing characteristic. Yes, Mr. Erskine, an absolutely reasonable people. I
assure you there is no nonsense about the Americans." "How dreadful!" cried Lord
Henry. "I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is
something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect."
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"I can sympathize with everything except suffering," said Lord Henry, shrugging his
shoulders. "I cannot sympathize with that. It is too ugly, too horrible, too
distressing. There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain.
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"Quite so," answered the young lord. "It is the problem of slavery, and we try to
solve it by amusing the slaves." The politician looked at him keenly. "What change
do you propose, then?" he asked. Lord Henry laughed. "I don't desire to change
anything in England except the weather," he answered. "I am quite content with
philosophic contemplation. But, as the nineteenth century has gone bankrupt through
an over-expenditure of sympathy, I would suggest that we should appeal to science
to put us straight. The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and
the advantage of science is that it is not emotional."
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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends
by deceiving others.
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China_Rich_Girlfriend_-_Kevin_Kwan (Ng,Erin Co)
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vodka to dull
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (Philip K. Dick)
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sacrosanct.”
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (Philip K. Dick)
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stentorian
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Yuval Noah Harari)
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David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants (Malcolm

sodomites, drug addicts, fetishists, onanists, pornogra-phers,

said, as if it were only natural. Then he asked, "So let's

Ethnic tension, poverty, environmental pressure, religious sectarianism, and

They can sit at their ease and gape at the play.

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