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I know for certain of only one commandment, one obligation, that God imposes upon us, and that is to be compassionate toward other human beings.

  • -- Theodore Bikel 西奥多·比凯尔

我很确定，神只给我们一条诫命，一项义务，那就是怜悯别人。

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I am not religious. I do not believe that personhood is conferred upon conception. But I also do not believe that a human embryo is the moral equivalent of a hangnail and deserves no more respect than an appendix.

我不信教。我不认为人格是由概念赋予的。但我也不认为人类胚胎在道德上等同于一根倒刺，它只配得上一个阑尾。

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We cannot sacrifice innocent human life now for vague and exaggerated promises of medical treatments thirty of forty years from now. There are ways to pursue this technology and respect life at the same time.

我们不能为了三、四十年后含糊而夸张的医疗承诺而牺牲无辜的生命。有很多方法可以在追求科技的同时尊重生命。

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It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy.

这是生活中最令人悲伤的事情之一，尽管我们尽了最大的努力，但我们永远不能肯定能让人们幸福，而我们几乎总是能肯定能让他们不幸福。

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Of course it's why you want to become a writer - because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it.

当然，这就是为什么你想成为一名作家——因为你有这样做的自由，但一旦你有了自由，你也有义务去做。

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We not only have a legal obligation to honor our commitments, we have a moral obligation to provide the coverage we promised to provide to these people.

我们不仅有法律义务履行我们的承诺，我们还有道德义务为这些人提供我们承诺提供的保险。

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One single vision fills all minds: that of our independence endangered. One single duty imposes itself upon our wills: the duty of stubborn resistance.

所有人心中只有一个愿景:我们的独立受到威胁。有一项责任强加给我们的意志:顽强抵抗的责任。

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Conversations in the flesh are the first drafts toward the later conversations of the mind, where words and ideas are sorted and elaborated, recast.

肉体上的对话是通向心灵深处的对话的第一稿，在那里，文字和思想被整理、阐述、改写。

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You hear certain things, negative things, all the time that aren't true, but you never hear about the positive.

你总是听到一些不真实的事情，消极的事情，但是你从来没有听到过积极的事情。

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Finding out exactly what went wrong is key toward preventing future debacles.

准确地找出问题所在是防止未来经济崩溃的关键。

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