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We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum major's uniform on.

  • -- Robert Benchley 本奇利

我们自称是一个自由的国家，然而我们却让自己在酒店门口被一个男人告知我们可以乘坐什么出租车，不可以乘坐什么出租车，仅仅因为他穿了一件鼓少校的制服。

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Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.

然而，正是在这种孤独中，最深刻的活动才开始。正是在这里，你发现了没有运动的行动，那是深沉的休息的劳动，在朦胧中看到的远景，以及超越所有欲望的满足，它的极限延伸到无限。

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I will not be able to rule without you. You and I have the same responsibility. I do, as Bolivia's number one servant. Servant - one who serves the nation, not one whom the nation serves.

没有你我无法统治。你和我有同样的责任。我是玻利维亚的头号仆人。仆人——为国家服务的人，而不是为国家服务的人。

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Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family.

任何拒绝与其他国家交往的国家都将被排除在这个大家庭之外。

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I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.

我觉得我的环境反映了我对简单生活的优雅、艺术和优雅的信仰。

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Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.

每一种动物都会留下它的痕迹;人类独自留下了他所创造的痕迹。

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Only one man I love enough to do something like golfing for, and it’s not Dad.

只有一个我爱到可以为他做高尔夫球这样的事情的人，他不是爸爸。

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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

喜剧只是严肃的一种有趣的方式。

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I'm not maximized yet.

我还没有达到最大值。

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