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Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

  • -- Thomas Sowell 托马斯·索厄尔

自由已经付出了太多的鲜血和痛苦，不能以廉价的言辞换取自由。

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I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.

我一直都很华丽。充满了修辞。这就是我的缺点。在我写作的整个过程中，我不得不与之对抗，因为这可能是一种破坏性的姿态。

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If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

如果你想要完全的安全，去监狱吧。你在那里吃饭、穿衣、看病等等。唯一缺少的是……是自由的。

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Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

悲伤是一瞬间的痛苦。放纵悲伤是一生的错误。

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I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric.

我是个平实的人，比较不关心也不太懂修辞。

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Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from judgement.

言论自由并不意味着不受审判。

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