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All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

  • -- Thomas Jefferson 托马斯·杰斐逊

所有暴政要站稳脚跟，都需要有良知的人保持沉默。

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I respect people who feel things passionately. I do. But when someone is a judge, that is not what they should bring to the bench. It is not really passion, except in rare instances, that serves the bench well. It is, rather, an ability to understand the law and follow it.

我尊重那些充满激情的人。我做的事。但当一个人是法官时，他们不应该把这个带到法官席上。并不是真正的激情，除非在极少数情况下，能很好地服务于板凳席。而是一种理解法律并遵循法律的能力。

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One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

一生中只有一个朋友就够了;两个有很多;三个是不可能的。友谊需要生活的某种并行性，思想的共同体，目标的竞争。

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There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.

没有比强迫一个人为他不想要的东西付出代价更糟糕的暴政了，仅仅因为你认为这对他有好处。

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Coins always make sounds... But paper moneys are always silent. So, when your value increases, keep yourself silent and humble.

硬币总能发声……但是纸币总是沉默的。所以，当你的价值增加时，保持沉默和谦逊。

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A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.

人的良心和他的判断是一回事;你们的良心和你们的判断，都有可能是错的。

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Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go

把过去的一年抛入寂静的过去。让它去吧，因为它并不完美，感谢上帝它能去

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You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.

你可以谈论尼禄和提比略的暴政;但真正的暴政是你隔壁邻居的暴政。

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People who are meant to be together find their way back, they may take a few detours, but they're never lost.

命中注定要在一起的人总能找到重温旧梦的路，他们也许会走一些弯路，但他们从未迷失。

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Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.

良心是我们灵魂的镜子，它代表了我们生活中的全部错误。

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A show needs time to find an audience, and they're very quick to pull them off the air now.

一个节目需要时间来找到观众，他们现在很快就能把观众从节目中拉出来。

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Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

无论是参议员还是演说家，言简意赅都是最好的推荐。

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I'm not very good with stills. I get all twitchy.

我不太擅长静态。我浑身抽搐。

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