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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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Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.

人被赋予了理性，拥有创造的能力，这样他就可以为他被赋予的东西做出贡献。但到目前为止，他还不是一个创造者，只是一个破坏者。森林不断消失，河流干涸，野生动物灭绝，气候被破坏，土地日益贫瘠和丑陋。

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It is very difficult and expensive to undo after you are married the things that your mother and father did to you while you were putting your first six birthdays behind you.

当你结婚后，你的父母对你做的那些事，你把你的头六个生日抛诸脑后，想要消除它们是非常困难和昂贵的。

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Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.

可怜的人类理性，当它相信自己的时候，用最奇怪的荒谬来代替最高的神圣概念。

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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

六十年前我什么都知道;现在我什么都不知道;教育是一个逐步发现自己无知的过程。

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Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

脱离了道德规范，领导只能沦为管理，政治只能沦为技巧。

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The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

人类生活中最重要的事情是赢得灵魂的善恶的艺术。

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Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.

小小的心灵会被不幸驯服和征服;但伟大的思想高于它们。

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Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

美德不能脱离现实而不成为邪恶的原则。

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I wonder what goes through your mind when someone mentions my name to you.

我想知道当有人向你提起我的名字时，你在想什么。

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We think as we do, mainly because other people think so.

我们的想法和我们一样，主要是因为别人也是这么想的。

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Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.

无知不是借口，这是事实。

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How can you think and hit at the same time?

你怎么能边想边打呢?

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