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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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It is up to the public to stop attending these theatrical, and aquatic shows, and circuses with wild animals. The rhetoric about how the animals are happy and well cared for are lies. Don't be swayed by them. The money behind these shows is huge; there is nothing good about them.

公众应该停止参加这些戏剧、水上表演和野生动物马戏团。关于动物如何快乐和受到良好照顾的花言巧语是谎言。不要被他们左右。这些节目背后的资金是巨大的;他们一点也不好。

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I cannot give a single concert at which I do not play one piece after the other in an agony of terror because my memory threatens to fail me. This fear torments me for days beforehand.

我不能在一场音乐会上不演奏一曲又一曲，因为我的记忆力可能要衰退了。这种恐惧折磨了我好几天。

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To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

有信心就是把自己托付给水。当你游泳时，你不会抓住水，因为如果你这样做，你会沉下去淹死。相反，你放松，漂浮。

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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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The only freedom you truly have is in your mind, so use it.

你真正拥有的唯一自由是你的思想，所以好好利用它。

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