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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

  • -- Thomas Paine 托马斯·潘恩

不把一件事想错的长期习惯使它表面上看起来是对的。

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One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality.

我和泰勒着迷的一件事，也是我们着迷于魔法的原因之一，就是幻想和现实之间的区别。

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All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

所有宽宏大量的人都对通常所说的“事实”感到恐惧。他们是智力领域的野兽。

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Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it toward completion.

每个孩子都是上帝心中的一个想法，我们的任务就是认识到这个想法，并帮助它完成。

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If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply won't.

如果你把理性和逻辑应用到我的职业生涯中，你不会走得太远。你根本不会。

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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

国家不是道德的行动者，而是人，而且可以将道德标准强加给强大的机构。

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I think ethics is always there; it's not always a very thoughtful or reflective ethics.

我认为道德总是存在的;这并不总是一种深思熟虑或深思熟虑的道德规范。

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It's our greed to extract more and more from good that turns it into evil.

正是我们贪婪地从善中榨取越来越多的东西，才把善变成了恶。

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I am not thinking too far ahead, just want to take it one thing at a time.

我没有想得太远，只是想一次做一件事。

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It is better conceal one's knowledge than to reveal one's ignorance.

掩盖自己的知识胜于揭露自己的无知。

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Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

无知与其说是一种耻辱，不如说是不愿学习。

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No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.

没有人能以权宜为理由作恶。

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A man's conversation is the mirror of his thoughts.

一个人的谈话是他思想的镜子。

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