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We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

  • -- Benjamin Franklin 本杰明富兰克林

就我们的政治利益而言，我们比世界上任何其他民族都更彻底地是一个开明的民族。我们当中的每一个人都读书，在他所处的环境中，读书是如此的容易，以致于有空闲的时间来讨论进步和获取信息。

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Candidates don't have to deal with reality. They talk about the wonderful things they can accomplish as if advocating them is the same as achieving them. They live in a world of political make-believe in which everything from reconciling conflicting interests to paying for costly programs is easy.

候选人不必面对现实。他们谈论他们能完成的美妙的事情，好像提倡它们和实现它们是一样的。他们生活在一个政治虚幻的世界里，从调和利益冲突到为昂贵的项目买单，一切都很容易。

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We're always attracted to characters who are people we could identify with and yet are put through incredibly tortured or difficult circumstances - the idea being that you don't really know who you are until you've been tested or suffered in some way.

我们总是被一些角色所吸引，这些角色是我们能够认同的人，但却经历了难以置信的折磨或艰难的环境——这种想法是，你不知道自己是谁，直到你经历了某种考验或遭受某种痛苦。

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Internationalism is a social and political theory, a certain concept of how human society ought to be organized, and in particular a concept of how the nations ought to organize their mutual relations.

国际主义是一种社会和政治理论，是关于人类社会应该如何组织的特定概念，特别是关于各国应该如何组织相互关系的概念。

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The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I've had to learn a little bit about it. It's not rocket science: You get ratings, that's good.

无线电业务中我最不感兴趣的是无线电业务。但是我已经学了一点。这不是火箭科学:你得到评级，这很好。

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Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.

谦卑是一种优雅，它在高尚的环境中闪耀光芒，但在卑微的环境中却无法同样闪耀光芒，因为一个人在卑微的环境中可能已经过于谦卑了。

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This year has been full of lessons learned and soul searching and realizing I'm an adult. It's time to take responsibility and not take the easy way out.

这一年充满了经验教训和自我反省，我意识到自己已经是个成年人了。是时候承担责任了，不要走捷径。

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The circumstances, including my body and my parents, whom I may curse, are my soul's own choice and I do not understand this because I have forgotten.

环境，包括我的身体和我的父母，我可能会诅咒他们，是我的灵魂自己的选择，我不明白这一点，因为我已经忘记了。

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Europe has a lot of strength. We need to pool that strength, and I am very much in favour of that - more of a deeper political union.

欧洲实力雄厚。我们需要凝聚这种力量，我非常支持这一点——更深入的政治联盟。

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Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief.

好的广告不仅仅是传播信息。它以欲望和信仰穿透公众的心灵。

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Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity.

电报是一种能以极快的速度在广泛的线路上传送信息的机器。

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Ants are good citizens, they place group interests first.

蚂蚁是好公民，他们把集体利益放在第一位。

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I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

我成为画家也许要归功于花儿。

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