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To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.

  • -- Thomas Paine 托马斯·潘恩

说任何一个人都不适合自由，就是让贫困成为他们的选择，说他们宁愿背负重税也不愿不负担。

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We will not overcome world poverty unless we manage climate change successfully. I've spent my life as a development economist, and it's crystal clear that we succeed or fail on winning the battle against world poverty and managing climate change together. If we fail on one, we fail on the other.

除非我们成功地应对气候变化，否则我们将无法克服世界贫困。我一生都是发展经济学家，很明显，我们在战胜世界贫困和共同应对气候变化的斗争中是成功还是失败。如果我们在一件事上失败了，我们在另一件事上也会失败。

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Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as when one person finds another unconscious and administers medical assistance or calls an ambulance.

自由主义者认为，正常的成年人没有权利把选择强加给其他正常的成年人，除非是在异常情况下，比如当一个人发现另一个人失去知觉，并管理医疗援助或呼叫救护车时。

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People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

被法律压垮的人，没有希望，只能逃避权力。如果法律是他们的敌人，他们就会成为法律的敌人;而那些拥有最多希望却一无所有的人将永远是危险的。

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The key to revenue growth is tax reform that closes loopholes and that is pro-growth. Then with a growing economy, that's where your revenue growth comes in, not from higher taxes.

税收增长的关键是税收改革，它能堵住漏洞，促进增长。随着经济的增长，这就是收入增长的来源，而不是更高的税收。

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It is within your power at this very moment not only to consumate an act of enlightened statesmanship, but, as the instrument of the Almighty, to restore to freedom a race of men.

在这一时刻，你们不仅有能力完成一项开明的政治家风范，而且作为全能的工具，有能力恢复人类的自由。

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There's no recovery on Main Street, I can tell you that for sure. And in a re - in an economy like this, we don't need to be raising anybody's taxes.

我可以肯定地告诉你，缅因大街上没有恢复的迹象。在这样的经济中，我们不需要提高任何人的税收。

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I'd rather be physically hurt than emotionally. Because you can put a band-aid onyour finger, but you can't put one on your heart.

我宁愿身体上受伤害，也不愿感情上受伤害。因为你可以把创可贴贴在手指上，但不能贴在心脏上。

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Freedom is not to defy, it is to co-exist. It is a challenge for the imagination.

自由不是反抗，而是共存。这是对想象力的挑战。

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People, y'know, they either love us or they hate us; there's no middle ground.

人们，你知道，他们要么爱我们，要么恨我们;没有中间地带。

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I guess I'm quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.

我想我已经习惯了不被理解而不是被理解。

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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.

贫困项目的目的不是消除贫困。

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Every choice you make has an end result.

你做的每一个选择都有一个结果。

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