“Khadaji only nodded. It didn’t matter to him if he passed the test or not. He wasn’t here to get a degree; he was here to learn.”

—  Steve Perry , book The Man Who Never Missed

Source: The Man Who Never Missed (1985), Chapter 14 (p. 122)

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