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We are a vibrant first-world country, but we have a humbling third-world memory.
我们是一个充满活力的第一世界国家，但我们对第三世界的记忆却令人羞愧。
— Mary McAleese 玛丽·麦亚烈斯
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更多好句 ↗In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If the authors had not achieved self-affirmation while writing, how could they have continued to write?
在文学史上，有许多伟大而不朽的作品，是作者生前没有发表过的。如果作者在写作中没有得到自我肯定，又怎么能继续写作呢?
Gao Xingjian
高行健
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
在人类(以及动物)的漫长历史中，那些学会了最有效地合作和即兴发挥的人占了上风。
Charles Darwin
查尔斯·达尔文
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
人不能从历史的教训中学到很多东西，这是所有历史教训中最重要的一条。
Aldous Huxley
奥尔德斯·赫胥黎
Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
不能从历史中吸取教训的人注定要重蹈覆辙。
George Santayana
乔治·桑塔亚纳
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
大多数人都有一种近乎无限的能力，认为一切都是理所当然的。人不能从历史的教训中学到很多东西，这是所有历史教训中最重要的一条。
Aldous Huxley
奥尔德斯·赫胥黎
The only way to find out anything about what kinds of lives people led in any given period is to tunnel into their records and to let them speak for themselves.
要想知道人们在特定时期过着怎样的生活，唯一的方法就是挖掘他们的记录，让他们为自己说话。
John Dos Passos
约翰·多斯·帕索斯