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Thinking about profound social change, conservatives always expect disaster, while revolutionaries confidentially expect utopia. Both are wrong.

  • -- Carolyn Heilbrun 海尔布伦

考虑到深刻的社会变革，保守主义者总是期待灾难，而革命者则暗地里期待乌托邦。两者都是错误的。

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I think a moratorium probably is legal, and we should probably for a short period of time impose a moratorium so that we don't permit any additional landfill permits for the time being, so we don't exacerbate the problem.

我认为暂停填埋可能是合法的，我们可能应该在短时间内暂停填埋，这样我们就不会允许任何额外的填埋许可，这样我们就不会使问题恶化。

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The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right -- it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.

新政治的希望不在于形成左翼对右翼的回应——而在于拒绝传统的政治类别。

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Conservative: a statesman who is enamoured of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.

保守主义者:迷恋现存罪恶的政治家，与自由主义者不同，自由主义者希望用其他罪恶取而代之。

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In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

为了行动，你必须有点疯狂。有理智的人对思考是满意的。

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Reform is affirmative, conservatism negative; conservatism goes for comfort, reform for truth.

改革是肯定的，保守主义是否定的;保守主义追求舒适，改革追求真理。

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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

极端的希望来自极端的苦难。

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