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If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.

  • -- Harriet Martineau 马蒂诺

如果要对文明进行检验，没有人能像社会的那一半人的状况那样确定，而社会的那一半人又掌握着权力。

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Of course the word chaos is used in rather a vague sense by a lot of writers, but in physics it means a particular phenomenon, namely that in a nonlinear system the outcome is often indefinitely, arbitrarily sensitive to tiny changes in the initial condition.

当然，“混沌”这个词在很多作家的作品中都有相当模糊的含义，但在物理学中，它指的是一种特殊的现象，即在非线性系统中，结果往往是不确定的，对初始条件的微小变化非常敏感。

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No doubt Western civilization has in the past been full of wars and revolutions, and the national elements in our culture, even when they were ignored, always provided an unconscious driving force of passion and aggressive self-assertion.

毫无疑问，西方文明在过去充满了战争和革命，而我们文化中的民族元素，即使被忽视，也总是提供了一种无意识的动力，激情和侵略性的自我主张。

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Difference is not the opposite of harmony but its condition.

差异不是和谐的对立面，而是和谐的条件。

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Without adventure civilization is in full decay

没有冒险，文明就会完全衰败

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