The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts.

-- Derek Walcott 沃尔科特

历史的叹息从废墟中升起，而不是从风景中升起。在安的列斯群岛，除了糖园和废弃堡垒的废墟外，几乎没有什么废墟值得叹息。

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The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.

乐观主义的本质是不考虑现在，而是别人已经放弃的灵感、活力和希望的源泉;它能使一个人昂首挺胸，为自己争取未来，而不把未来拱手让给敌人。

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Satan cannot win. Why not? Because he has denied God's sovereignty and disobeyed God's law. But Moses was told explicitly, God's blessings come only from obedience. Satan will not win because he has abandoned God's tool of dominion, biblical law.

撒旦不能赢。为什么不呢?因为他不承认神的主权，不遵守神的律法。但是摩西被明确地告诉，神的祝福只来自顺服。撒旦不会赢，因为他已经放弃了上帝的统治工具，圣经律法。

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Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That's not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That's not leadership. That's abandoning our middle class.

当中产阶级受到伤害时，什么也不做。这不是领导。规章制度宽松，执法不严。这不是领导。这是在抛弃我们的中产阶级。

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We have been abandoned by our own country.

我们被自己的国家抛弃了。

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