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If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?

  • -- Francis Parker Yockey 弗朗西斯·帕克·约基

如果悲观是绝望，乐观就是懦弱和愚蠢。有必要在他们之间做出选择吗?

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For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

一个作家边写边写，就像他犯了相反的错误一样，应该受到谴责;因为这给他所说的话带来了一种迂腐的效果，同时也使他的话难以理解。

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It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all.

正是因为国家倾向于愚蠢和卑劣，人类才行动得如此缓慢;正是因为个人有能力做更好的事情，它才会发生变化。

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It's hard to argue against cynics -- they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on their side.

很难反驳愤世嫉俗者——他们总是比乐观主义者听起来更聪明，因为他们有那么多的证据支持自己。

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There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.

我们有理由谨慎乐观地认为，我们对自然终极规律的探索可能已经接近尾声。

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The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

愚蠢的人既不原谅也不忘记;天真的原谅和遗忘;智者宽恕而不遗忘。

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When a country is strong... it accepts any dose of pessimism from its writers.

当一个国家强大时……它接受作者的任何悲观论调。

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