To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

-- Thomas Paine 托马斯·潘恩

与一个已经放弃理性的使用和权威的人争论，就像给死人用药一样。

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For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. His hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught.

因为，如果一个从未见过火的人用令人满意的论据证明火是燃烧的。他的听众永远不会满足，除非他把手伸进火里，通过实验来学习论证所教的东西，否则他也不会避开火。

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I think the whole reason for my life is in there somewhere.

我想我生活的全部原因就在那里。

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Wise men argue causes, and fools decide them.

智者辨原因，愚者定原因。

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Give her reasons to believe, not to doubt.

给她相信的理由，而不是怀疑。

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