Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.

  • -- Vladimir Nabokov 弗拉基米尔·纳博科夫

自满是一种精神状态,它只存在于回顾中:它必须在被确定之前被粉碎。

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The West hasn't reached its universal state as yet, although its close to it, but it certainly has evolved out of its warring state phase, which it was in for a couple of centuries.

西方还没有达到它的普遍状态,虽然它离它很近,但它肯定已经从它的交战状态中进化出来了,它已经处于交战状态几个世纪了。

We see an extensive program of dismantling state institutions... These are ingredients for catastrophe.

我们看到了一个广泛的拆除国家机构的计划。这些都是造成灾难的因素。