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Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.

  • -- Ralph Waldo Emerson 拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生

要像太阳或大海一样仁慈，但是如果你作为一个理性存在的权利被牢牢地钉住，那就死在你领土的第一寸土地上。

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Then, without realizing it, you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day; of course, you achieve quite a lot in the course of time. Anyone can do this, it costs nothing and is certainly very helpful. Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that a quiet conscience makes one strong.

然后，在没有意识到的情况下，你试着在新的一天开始的时候提高自己;当然，你在这段时间里取得了很大的成就。任何人都可以做到这一点，这是免费的，当然是非常有益的。谁不知道，就必须从经验中学习和发现，平静的良心使人坚强。

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We all look to have transcendent experiences that lift us out of the everyday, and fear is a good one. But, I think it's the same reason why people want to laugh their heads off.

我们都希望有超越自我的体验，让我们从日常生活中解脱出来，而恐惧是一种很好的体验。但是，我认为这也是人们想笑掉大牙的原因。

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I think that the question of how power can be exerted from the lower reaches has never been more important. It will ultimately determine whether another world is indeed possible

我认为，如何利用下游的力量从来没有像现在这样重要。它最终将决定另一个世界是否真的可能存在

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Libertarians recognize the inevitable pluralism of the modern world and for that reason assert that individual liberty is at least part of the common good.

自由主义者认识到现代世界不可避免的多元性，因此主张个人自由至少是公共利益的一部分。

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Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.

明智的不满是文明的主要源泉。进步源于激荡。它是躁动或停滞。

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You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

你不能让自己感觉一些你感觉不到的东西，但你可以让自己做正确的事，不管你的感觉如何。

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The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which makes you lonely.

如果你真的与众不同，那么让你与众不同的必然是让你感到孤独的东西。

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It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

要很好地适应一个疾病深重的社会，并不能衡量健康状况。

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I'm not really rebellious. People think I am, but I'm not.

我不是很叛逆。人们认为我是，但我不是。

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To no human charter am I indebted for my rights.

我的权利并不归功于任何人类宪章。

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