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Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom.

  • -- Robert Hall 霍尔

无论什么东西，只要是古代所支持的、权威所强制的、风俗所推荐的，人类就容易产生强烈的偏见。

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If I could get a deal on whatever my impulse was, whenever my impulse struck, and it was nearby, I would use that all the time. It would reshape the way that I shop.

如果我能买到一笔交易，不管我的冲动是什么，无论我的冲动什么时候出现，而且就在附近，我都会一直用它。它将重塑我的购物方式。

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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.

人类不是一个只有一个中心的圆，而是一个有两个焦点的椭圆，其中一个焦点是事实，另一个焦点是思想。

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Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.

人是如此简单，如此倾向于服从眼前的需要，以至于一个骗子永远不会因为他的欺骗而缺少受害者。

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I like to read really good books - anything that's really great, whether it's fiction, non-fiction, how-to, or whatever.

我喜欢读非常好的书——任何非常棒的书，不管是小说、非小说、如何做，或者其他什么。

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He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson of statecraft.

一个稳坐权力宝座的人，很快就会学会思考治国之道的最高课程是安全，而不是进步。

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Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.

权威完全有理由害怕怀疑论者，因为权威很少能在怀疑面前生存。

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