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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

  • -- Thomas Jefferson 托马斯·杰斐逊

如果一个国家期望无知和自由，在文明的状态下，它期望的是过去和将来都不会发生的事情。

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The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation.

政治家的职业生涯主要是使国家的一部分做它不想做的事，以取悦和满足国家的另一部分。

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I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.

我不相信文明会在一场有原子弹的战争中被消灭。也许地球上三分之二的人将被杀害。

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Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?

那么，如果犯罪分子与犯罪作斗争，消防人员与火灾作斗争，自由战士与什么作斗争呢?他们从来没有跟我们提过那部分，是吗?

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A country where flowers are priced so as to make them a luxury has yet to learn the first principles of civilization.

一个把鲜花定价成奢侈品的国家还没有学会文明的首要原则。

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Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war.

很少有人敢否认节制在提高一个处于战争状态的国家的效率方面的好处。

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The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.

动物不知道他知道的事实。这个人知道自己无知这一事实。

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You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.

如果你不往机器里放几个五分镍币，就别指望中头彩。

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What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.

我们预料不到的事很少发生，但我们预料不到的事往往发生。

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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

我从未见过如此无知的人，以至于我不能从他身上学到一些东西。

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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

太自由是不好的。拥有自己想要的一切并不好。

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