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Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.

  • -- Ambrose Bierce 比尔斯

人之所以变得文明，不是因为他们愿意相信，而是因为他们愿意怀疑。

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The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind.

事实上，每一个思想家，每一个哲学家，当他因为实际的需要而被迫放弃他片面的知识工作的时候，就立即回到人类的一般观点上来。

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Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community.

正直的人，通过他们的存在，重新点燃了这样的信念:作为一个民族，我们可以生活在道德败坏的水平之上。我们需要这种信念;愤世嫉俗的社会是腐败的社会。

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There is no squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

昨天接受一个观点的人和明天接受同样观点的人之间的争吵是最激烈的。

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Our circumstances answer to our expectations and the demand of our natures.

我们所处的环境符合我们的期望和天性的要求。

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