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We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.

  • -- Thomas Jefferson 托马斯·杰斐逊

我们可以把每一代人看作是一个独特的民族，他们有权利，按照大多数人的意愿，约束自己，但没有人比另一个国家的居民更能约束后代。

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The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this.

事实上，我们这一代人是第一代能够正视疾病和极端贫困的人，能够跨越大洋来到非洲，并且说到做到。我们不需要忍受这些。整个大陆都被一笔勾销了——我们不必忍受这种情况。

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In fact, a large majority of those have died and of those expected to die of AIDS, as well as of those who are infected with the virus, are in sub-Saharan Africa.

事实上，绝大多数人已经死亡，预计死于艾滋病的人以及感染艾滋病毒的人都在撒哈拉以南非洲。

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Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

智慧站在道路的转弯处，公开地召唤我们，但我们认为它是虚假的，轻视它的追随者。

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It's a great relationship when you can work with the person who you consider to be your soul mate.

当你能和你认为是你灵魂伴侣的人一起工作时，这是一种很好的关系。

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Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.

有些人成功是因为他们命中注定。有些人成功是因为他们有决心。

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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

我们人生的事业不是要成功，而是要保持良好的精神状态，不断地失败。

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The one thing that does not abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

唯一不遵守多数决定原则的是一个人的良心。

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Every writer is a writer of the generation before.

每个作家都是上一代人的作家。

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