The guy who could quote Alexander Pope learned about spitting tobacco and dodgingmortar rounds, the strange allure of a hard life. “Everything is vivid, eventhe crappy food,” he said.

这是一个可以随意引用教皇名言，一边吐着烟圈一边预测房地产危机的家伙，他的生命无比顽强与绚烂多姿。“每一个东西都有它的意义，即使是无比难吃的食物，”他说到。

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Of course, if you accept that quote as the basis for any argument, it's just as hard to map the progress of and towards the singularity as it is to deny that it will happen.

当然了，如果你把这句话作为任何论证的基础的话，指出奇点或向奇点演进的进程其困难程度就跟否认奇点会发生一样的困难。

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A quote that has helped me through difficult, through hard times.

这句话曾帮助我战胜困难，度过低潮。

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Ms. PROSE: I mean I have a chapter on sentences in which I quote Raymond Chandler, and it was just hard not to quote Raymond Chandler all the way through the chapter.

NPR: Could You Be the Great American Novelist?

Spaceflight, to quote the old cliche, is hard, and at some point the Chinese programme will encounter problems.

BBC: China in space: Running fast to catch up

What Lanier describes as "mashup" culture -- where nothing is quite a whole work but rather snippets of things remixed together -- leads to aggregation of aggregators such as FriendFeed, where it's hard to tell the source of a work, idea, or quote, and where there is barely any context, if any at all.

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