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No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.
任何文明社会都不可能长期存在，因为它的积极力量比法律更强大。
— James Fenimore Cooper 詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏
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更多好句 ↗While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.
虽然文明一直在改善我们的住房，但它并没有同样改善住在其中的人。它创造了宫殿，但创造贵族和国王并不容易。
Henry David Thoreau
亨利·大卫·梭罗
We imagine that times have changed, because we have, and that we have changed, because times have.
我们想象时代变了，因为我们变了，我们也变了，因为时代变了。
Shraga Silverstein
施拉格·西尔弗斯坦
We need better neighbors, neighbors that care about the schools in their neighborhood whether they have kids in them or not, because they know that the health and vitality of that neighborhood depends on it.
我们需要更好的邻居，关心他们社区的学校的邻居，不管他们有没有孩子，因为他们知道社区的健康和活力取决于此。
Thomas L. Friedman
托马斯·L·弗里德曼
The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.
有创造力的人有能力将自己从社会压力的网中解放出来，而我们其他人则被困在其中。他能够质疑我们其他人接受的假设。
John William Gardner
约翰·威廉·加德纳
Perhaps the greatest utopia would be if we could all realize that no utopia is possible; no place to run, no place to hide, just take care of business here and now.
也许最伟大的乌托邦是如果我们都能意识到没有乌托邦是可能的;没有地方可逃，没有地方可躲，现在就把这里的事处理好。
Jack Carroll
杰克·卡罗尔
No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems.
没有一种现象是孤立的，而是会影响我们生活的方方面面。我们正在认识到，我们是自然生态系统的基本组成部分。
Arthur Erickson
亚瑟·埃里克