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The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail.
愤世嫉俗者是文明的寄生虫，他们靠否认文明而生存，因为他们相信文明不会失败。
— Jose Ortega y Gasset 加塞
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更多好句 ↗Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations.
批评和悲观主义摧毁了家庭，破坏了各种制度，几乎打败了所有人，并给整个国家蒙上了一层阴霾。
Gordon B. Hinckley
戈登·兴格莱
Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: Youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness.
我们社会的价值观正在被广告对等式的坚持所破坏:青春等于受欢迎，受欢迎等于成功，成功等于幸福。
John Fisher
约翰·费舍尔
The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.
智慧的极限，就是大众所谓的疯狂。
Jean Cocteau
让·科克图
The well-meaning contention that all ideas have equal merit seems to me little different from the disastrous contention that no ideas have any merit.
在我看来，所有想法都有同等的价值这一善意的论点与没有任何想法有任何价值这一灾难性的论点几乎没有什么不同。
Carl Sagan
卡尔·萨根
The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops – no, but the kind of man the country turns out.
对文明的真正考验不是人口普查，也不是城市的大小，也不是庄稼——不，而是这个国家造就了什么样的人。
Ralph Waldo Emerson
拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生
When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life.
当你掌控自己的生活时，就不再需要征求他人或整个社会的同意。当你请求许可时，你给了别人对你生活的否决权。
Geoffrey F. Abert
杰弗里·F·阿伯特