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If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.

  • -- Thomas Merton 托马斯·默顿

如果你想研究现代国家的社会和政治史，那就去研究地狱吧。

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No matter where you are in your life, whatever set of people you're with, it all still breaks down like high school does. You have your social cliques, you have the people you get along with, the people you don't and the people you're ambivalent about. All of the dynamics are still here.

不管你在生活的哪个阶段，不管你和什么样的人在一起，这一切都会像高中一样崩溃。你有自己的社交圈，有和你相处融洽的人，有和你格格不入的人，还有让你矛盾的人。所有的动力都在这里。

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You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place.

你必须集中注意力，你必须学习，你必须做作业。你必须得比其他人得高分。否则，总会有人在那里等着取代你的位置。

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In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best.

在世界上每一个特定的国家，那些最强大的国家往往会战胜其他国家;在某些显著的特性中，最强的往往是最好的。

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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant. I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.

我不会接受任何可能与格兰特竞争的佣金。我要他守住他所挣的和得到的。我有我想要的所有级别。

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Hate is able to provoke disorders, to ruin a social organization, to cast a country into a period of bloody revolutions; but it produces nothing.

仇恨能够引起混乱，破坏一个社会组织，使一个国家陷入血腥革命的时期;但它什么也不会产生。

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The nation which reposes on the pillow of political confidence, will sooner or later end its political existence in a deadly lethargy.

一个依赖政治信心的国家，迟早会在致命的昏睡中结束其政治存在。

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Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.

地狱是魔鬼给你的最高奖赏，因为你是他的仆人。

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I always want my options to be open.

我总是希望我的选择是开放的。

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Without literature, life is hell.

没有文学，生活就是地狱。

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I didn't study acting.

我没有学过表演。

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