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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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And now the end is near And so I face the final curtain, My friends, I'll say it clear, I'll state my case of which I'm certain. I've lived a life that's full, I've travelled each and evr'y highway And more, much more than this, I did it my way.

现在，一切都快结束了 所以我面对着最后的帷幕， 朋友们，我要说清楚， 我将陈述我确信的情况。 我的生活是充实的，我走过每一条高速公路 不仅如此，我还用自己的方式做到了。

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So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.

所以我们在这里谈论的是人权。像人类一样生活的权利。生存的权利，句号。我们在非洲面临的是对人类尊严和平等的前所未有的威胁。

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The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

投票是人类有史以来所设计的最有力的工具，它打破了不公正，摧毁了囚禁人们的可怕的高墙，因为他们与众不同。

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The twentieth century may tell us that we have nothing to be complacent about in the recent history of humankind; but it also tells us that there is nothing inevitable about tyranny.

二十世纪可能告诉我们，在人类近代史上，我们没有什么可自满的;但它也告诉我们，暴政并非不可避免。

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That is - the reason for that is that home prices are only going to go up. Now, they've never gone down nationwide in our - since we've been keeping track of this.

原因是房价只会上涨。现在，他们从来没有在全国范围内下降，因为我们一直在跟踪这个。

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It is well known that the most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.

众所周知，最激进的革命者在革命后的第一天就会变成保守派。

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Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm.

政治不过是共同的脉搏跳动，革命不过是狂热的痉挛。

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Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity.

正直就是不违背自己身份的意愿。

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I was right then, I'm right now. I think time has proven me right.

我当时是对的，现在也是。我想时间证明我是对的。

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Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.

理智是对嘲笑的检验，而不是嘲笑对真理的检验。

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