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Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.

  • -- Felix Adler 费利克斯·阿德勒

如果个人美德的根病了，公共廉洁的果实就必然腐败。

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When kids can't afford to see it anymore maybe we'll have a whole resurgence of garage bands all over America and this New Wave thing will start to mean something on a grass roots level.

当孩子们再也看不下去的时候，也许全美各地的车库乐队就会全面复苏，而这股新浪潮将开始在草根阶层产生影响。

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Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

怀疑对美德的危害不亚于对幸福的危害;已经腐败的人天生多疑，而变得多疑的人很快就会腐败。

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Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.

现在我是一棵老圣诞树，它的根已经死了。它们就这样出现了，当小针从我身上掉下来的时候，把它们换成大奖章。

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Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.

无限的权力容易腐蚀拥有它的人的思想;诸位大人，我知道，法律的终点就是暴政的起点。

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My private life is private. But at the same time, I have nothing to hide. So what I will say is that I am very happy.

我的私人生活是私人的。但与此同时，我没有什么可隐瞒的。所以我要说的是，我很高兴。

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Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.

不受任何教派的奴役，不走私人道路，而是透过自然看到自然的上帝。

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