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A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

  • -- Alexander Pope 亚历山大·波普

一个没有统治权、天意和最终目标的上帝，只不过是命运和自然。

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Spirituality does two things for you. One, you are forced to become more selfless, two, you trust to providence. The opposite of a spiritual man is a materialist. If I was a materialist I would be making lots of money doing endorsements, doing cricket commentary. I have no interest in that.

灵性为你做了两件事。第一，你被迫变得更加无私;第二，你相信上帝。精神上的人的对立面是唯物主义者。如果我是个唯物主义者，我会通过做代言、做板球评论赚很多钱。我对此不感兴趣。

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For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.

因为人生下来就是哑巴，不，是没有任何理性的，总比他利用上天的恩赐去毁灭他的邻居要好。

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For we must be one thing or the other, an asset or a liability, the sinew in your wing to help you soar, or the chain to bind you to earth.

因为我们必须是这样或那样的东西，一种资产或一种负债，是帮助你飞翔的翅膀上的腱，还是把你束缚在地球上的锁链。

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And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, while the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its waves.

地生植物，海摇波浪，哥伦比亚的子孙就永远不作奴仆。

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