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It does not take a majority to prevail but rather a tireless, irate minority, keen to set brush fires in the minds.

  • -- Samuel Adams 塞缪尔·亚当斯

获胜并不需要多数人的支持，而是需要不知疲倦、愤怒的少数人的支持，他们渴望在头脑中点燃一团灌木丛。

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All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

所有人也将铭记这一神圣的原则，即虽然多数人的意愿在所有情况下都占上风，但这种合法的意愿必须是合理的;少数人拥有平等的权利，而平等的法律必须保护这些权利，侵犯这些权利就是压迫。

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The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.

绝大多数人不喜欢甚至实际上害怕所有他们不熟悉的概念。因此，创新者一出现就受到迫害，总是被嘲笑为傻瓜和疯子。

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As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.

据我所知，只有一小部分数学家，甚至包括那些柏拉图主义者，接受这样的观点，即可能存在真实但不可知的数学事实。

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I don't think that artists of any kind would or could sacrifice their artistic freedom by being more responsible with their influence on people, especially young people.

我不认为任何一种艺术家会或可以牺牲他们的艺术自由，对他们对人们，尤其是年轻人的影响更负责任。

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Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.

只有那些被允许实践自由的人才能拥有成年人的眼神。

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