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Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.

  • -- Eric Hoffer 埃里克·霍弗

社会进步更容易通过对结果质量的关注而不是单纯的动机来实现。

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I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race.

我很高兴听到这个决定，因为我讨厌堂兄弟姐妹结婚，讨厌任何可以追溯到最遥远关系的人结婚。我追求进步而不是我们种族的堕落。

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Keeping our eyes on journey's end is what we need - the place where we see at last the world that is greater than the world, the new creation that cannot be contained in present thought or social order or piety.

关注旅程的终点是我们所需要的——在那里我们最终看到了一个比世界更大的世界，无法包含在当前的思想、社会秩序或虔诚中的新创造。

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Sometimes, his methods and his motives are questionable and even his morals are questionable in the way he does things. But I think his intention is always to protect his daughter.

有时，他的方法和动机是可疑的，甚至他的道德是可疑的，在他做事情的方式。但我认为他的意图一直是保护他的女儿。

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Unionism, seldom if ever, uses such powers as it has to ensure better work; almost always it devotes a large part of that power to safeguarding bad work.

工会主义很少(如果有的话)使用它必须确保更好工作的权力;它几乎总是把这种力量的很大一部分用于保护不好的工作。

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A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others.

一个有道德的人是能够反思他过去的行为和动机的人——赞成一些，反对另一些。

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Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.

生活改善缓慢，出错迅速，只有灾难清晰可见。

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In fact, I think for a lot of writers, it's so hard to be read.

事实上，我认为对很多作家来说，读起来很难。

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The love of freedom has been the quality of Western man.

热爱自由一直是西方人的品质。

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