We hold the moral obligation of providing for old age, helpless infancy, and poverty is far superior to that of supplying the invented wants of courtly extravagance.

-- Thomas Paine 托马斯·潘恩

我们在道义上有责任赡养老人、无助的婴儿和贫困，这远远超过满足宫廷奢侈的虚构需求。

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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

我们人类需要，也应该有一个头脑清醒、对世界如何运转有基本了解的公民。

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I believe the greatest asset a Head of State can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep.

我相信，一个国家元首所能拥有的最大财富就是能够睡个好觉。

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When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name.

当我年轻的时候，贫穷是如此普遍，我们不知道它有一个名字。

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To have nothing is not poverty.

一无所有并不代表贫穷。

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