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Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.

  • -- Ralph Waldo Emerson 拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生

要像太阳或大海一样仁慈，但是如果你作为一个理性存在的权利被牢牢地钉住，那就死在你领土的第一寸土地上。

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Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.

沟通是一种持续的平衡行为，在亲密和独立的需求之间平衡。为了在这个世界上生存，我们必须与他人合作，但是为了作为我们自己而生存，而不仅仅是作为一个齿轮上的齿轮，我们必须独自行动。

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We've got to take back the ideal of justice, we've got to take back this principle of human dignity. We've got to take it back from vengeance, from hatred, we've got to say: look, we're all in this together. We are human beings.

我们必须夺回正义的理想，我们必须夺回人类尊严的原则。我们必须从复仇中收回，从仇恨中收回，我们必须说:看，我们都在一起。我们是人。

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The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never allow us to bring about genuine change.

主人的工具永远拆不开主人的房子。他们可能允许我们暂时在他自己的游戏中打败他，但他们永远不会允许我们带来真正的改变。

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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

如果一个人跟不上他的同伴，也许是因为他听到了不同的鼓声。让他随着他所听到的音乐迈步前进，不管他是多么的有分寸，多么的遥远。

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In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.

事实上，如果一个人的美德不是由他自己的理性所产生的，那么把他称为有德之人就是一场闹剧。

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The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.

理性的问题在于，当它拒绝采取行动时，它就变得毫无意义了。

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Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

每一次反抗行为都表达了对纯真的怀念和对存在本质的诉求。

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An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

贫富之间的不平衡是所有共和国中最古老和最致命的弊病。

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Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.

永远不要瞧不起任何人，除非你在帮助他。

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