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Walls, no less than writing, define civilization. They are monuments of resistance against time, like writing itself.

  • -- Robert Pogue Harrison 罗伯特·波格·哈里森

墙壁，和文字一样，定义了文明。它们是抵抗时间的纪念碑，就像写作本身一样。

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There is as yet no civilized society, but only a society in the process of becoming civilized. There is as yet no civilized nation, but only nations in the process of becoming civilized. From this standpoint, we can now speak of a collective task of humankind. The task of humanity is to build a genuine civilization.

世界上还没有文明的社会，只有正在走向文明的社会。世界上还没有文明的民族，只有正在走向文明的民族。从这一观点出发，我们现在可以谈谈人类的一项集体任务。人类的任务是建设真正的文明。

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What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation.

我们该对孩子们说些什么呢?欲速则不达。三思而后行。停下来思考。不要以貌取人。我们相信，我们总是更好地收集尽可能多的信息和花尽可能多的时间来考虑。

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The true civilization is where every man gives to every other man every right he claims for himself.

真正的文明是每个人都把他为自己要求的每一项权利给予他人。

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

人们总是说时间能改变一切，但实际上你必须自己去改变它们。

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