The earth circled away, and knowing that hedid so, he turned his lost face to the empty sky and became dreamless, unalive, perfect.

大地不停地环绕，他知道他把迷失的脸转向空洞的天空进入了无梦般的安详、沉寂、完美之境。

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All the talk about character, without personally knowing the Author and Giver of character, is a hollow and empty shell;

如果我们一味地谈论美徳，却不认识那位创造并赐予美德的神，只是虚有其表的空谈而已。

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Many workers have stared at an empty PowerPoint page with dread, knowing that their thoughts and ideas would be projected onto a screen to a roomful of people and believed that the best way to fill the void is with faux words that sound more important than they are.

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But the LDP tries to wrap its gift nicely and deliver it without knowing if the box is empty or if there is a bomb inside.

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That morning, at the beginning of April, I was wide awake with plans to slip out of the room without any of the fifteen other girls knowing I was gone until they woke to the rancid smell of grits and eggs to see my empty bed carefully made.

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