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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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An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.

一种焦虑不安的不安，一种对利益的强烈渴望已经占领了商业界，在某些情况下，人类生活中最宝贵和永久的财富已被疯狂地牺牲，以换取一时的富裕。

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Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it obstructed its fair, comfortable progress in the path of life.

然而，邪恶还在增加，就像船上的藤壶寄生虫一样，如果它不破坏结构，就会阻碍它在人生道路上公平、舒适地前进。

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The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life, and includes a possibility to guide this reality toward the great Olympic Idea.

奥林匹克运动给世界提供了一个理想，这个理想考虑到生活的现实，并包括一种可能性，引导这个现实走向伟大的奥林匹克理念。

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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

对拥有的欲望是永不满足的，以至于它可以生存，甚至爱本身。因此，爱，就是让所爱的人绝育。

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when you came you cried and everybody smiled with joy; when you go smile and let the world cry for you.

当你来的时候，你哭了，每个人都高兴地笑了;当你微笑着离开，让世界为你哭泣。

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Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

任何试图摧毁激情而不是控制它们的人都是在扮演天使。

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