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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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You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

你不需要离开你的房间。坐在你的桌旁听。甚至不听，只是等待，安静和孤独。世界将自由地把自己奉献给你，让你去揭开它的面具，它没有选择，它将在你脚下狂喜地翻滚。

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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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People only talk about what a joyous experience it is, but there is terror: Your life, as you know it, is over. It's over the day that child is born. It's over, and something completely new starts.

人们只谈论这是多么快乐的经历，但也有恐惧:你知道，你的生活已经结束了。孩子出生的那一天就结束了。一切都结束了，全新的开始。

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Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards.

尽管这个国家自豪地认为自己是一个民族大熔炉，但在种族问题上，我们在很多方面一直是并将继续是一个本质上由懦夫组成的国家。

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This position is untenable, and there can be no pause in the agitation for full political power and responsibility until these are granted to all the women of the nation.

这一立场是站不住脚的，在把充分的政治权力和责任赋予全国所有妇女之前，不能停止要求充分的政治权力和责任的鼓动。

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When a man is trying to sell you something, don't imagine that he is polite all the time.

当一个男人想要卖东西给你时，不要以为他一直都很有礼貌。

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Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

失败只是一个重新开始的机会，这次更明智。

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Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.

赞美不需要花费什么，但许多人为此付出了高昂的代价。

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