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The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.

  • -- Adam Smith 亚当·史密斯

能够吸收最多的事实，并坚持这样做，一代又一代，通过所有的意见和细节的变化，是一个理论，必须统治所有的观察。

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Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us.

当然，现在是时候研究语言的意义和事物的本质，并得出一些简单的事实，这些事实不是根据有学问的权威的格言而得到的，而是根据我们对周围发生的事情的仔细观察而得到的。

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This is the problem for which revolutionary theory has yet to find the right solution, if there is one. The difficulty is that the economic interests of the two classes are antagonistic.

这是一个革命理论还没有找到正确答案的问题，如果有的话。困难在于这两个阶级的经济利益是对立的。

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I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject, a sort of meditation, a studying, a searching observation, in my case, for its own sake.

我认为大多数人认为绘画是服从于主题的，一种沉思，一种研究，一种探索的观察，就我而言，是为了绘画本身。

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The response to 'The Greatest Generation' and the books that followed has been one of the most satisfying experiences of my life.

对“最伟大的一代”和随后出版的书的回应是我一生中最令人满意的经历之一。

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If the theory turns out to be right, that will be tremendously thick and tasty icing on the cake.

如果这个理论被证明是正确的，那将是非常厚和美味的锦上添花。

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I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

我想如果我说的足够多，我就能让全世界相信我真的是最伟大的。

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