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The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.

  • -- Frederick Law Olmsted 弗雷德里克·劳·奥姆斯特德

在世界范围内，拥有专断的权力总是不可抗拒地破坏人类的感性、宽宏大量和真理。

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In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue.

在世界上那些学习和科学占主导地位的地方，奇迹已经停止;但在那些野蛮无知的地方，奇迹仍然流行。

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The thing is, that world doesn't exist. All growing up means is that your realize no one will come along to fix things. No one will come along to save you.

问题是，这个世界并不存在。长大意味着你意识到没有人会来解决问题。没有人会来救你。

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Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

恰当地说，人是基于希望的，除了希望，他别无所有;他的这个世界充满了希望。

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I don't want children. Why should I let some strange little monster into my life to destroy what to me is a perfect set-up?

我不想要孩子。为什么我要让一些奇怪的小怪物进入我的生活来破坏对我来说是完美的安排?

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In the end, our society will be defined not only by what we create, but by what we refuse to destroy.

最终，我们的社会将不仅由我们创造的东西来定义，而且由我们拒绝破坏的东西来定义。

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Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.

财富带给我们的快乐不如拥有它带给我们的快乐，而是失去它带给我们的痛苦。

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