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There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.

  • -- Bertrand Russell 罗素

一个人如果没有舒适的神话的帮助，就不能面对生活的危险，这人有一点软弱和可鄙。

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I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics, but rather to reflect on it, and be more open about the fact that something is an ethical issues and think what we ought to do about it.

我希望我们能更明确地思考这个问题，而不是把我们的直觉当作道德的既定标准，而是对它进行反思，对道德问题这一事实持更开放的态度，思考我们应该怎么做。

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I got married because I fell in love with this woman. I had a baby with her because we wanted to have children. But that's not because of some philosophical ideal at all, no.

我结婚是因为我爱上了这个女人。我和她生了个孩子，因为我们想要孩子。但这并不是因为某种哲学理想，不是。

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None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and Vertue.

神所造的人，没有一个在本质上是可鄙的;最吝啬的苍蝇，最贫穷的昆虫也有它的用处和生命力。

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Many feel that writers are a dime a dozen, so the goal is to break through and make it to the value of a penny.

许多人觉得作家是一毛钱一打，所以我们的目标是突破并使它的价值一分钱。

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It is the nature of a man as he grows older- to protest against change, particularly changes for the better

随着年龄的增长，人的本性就是反对变化，特别是向好的变化

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The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes.

人类的历史只是上层阶级的历史。

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Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.

“可能”、“可能”、“会”——他们是可鄙的帮凶。

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