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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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When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end.

当我们尽了最大的努力，作为一个团结的民族，我们能够以冷静的勇气和信心面对可能发生的一切，相信这个古老的国家将继续存在下去。

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I've learned never to expect people to be better than they are, but to always have faith that they can be more.

我学会了永远不要期望别人比他们更好，但要始终相信他们可以做得更好。

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Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.

长久以来，我们与文明最亲密的接触一直是通过艺术来实现的。

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A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.

一个忘记过去的国家，其功能不会比一个失忆的人更好。

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Civilization, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit.

毕竟，文明的定义是我们所禁止的，而不是我们所允许的。

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I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

我是不可知论者;我不假装知道许多无知的人所确信的事。

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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.

当你作为一名作家走红时，你必须期待饶舌歌手的出现。

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An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.

一个无知的人不知道你刚刚发现了什么。

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Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.

我们是否建立自由取决于我们自己。

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Forgiveness is really just another word for freedom.

宽恕其实只是自由的另一种说法。

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