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If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

  • -- Charles Darwin 查尔斯·达尔文

如果穷人的痛苦不是由自然法则造成的，而是由我们的制度造成的，那么我们的罪就太大了。

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One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

爱国主义最大的吸引力之一——它满足了我们最坏的愿望。以我们国家的名义，我们可以间接地欺凌和欺骗。欺侮和欺骗，更重要的是，我们觉得自己是非常善良的。

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To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way affected by the prospect of the death penalty would be to deprive the defendant of the impartial jury to which he or she is entitled under the law.

排除所有可能受到死刑前景最轻微影响的陪审员，就等于剥夺被告根据法律享有的公正陪审团的权利。

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I don't think anyone sets out to malign poor people but certainly that's what we do through organizations such as the World Trade Organization, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

我认为没有人会去诋毁穷人，但我们确实是通过世界贸易组织、世界银行和国际货币基金组织等组织来做这些事情的。

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All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

所有人类的优秀都是比较的。也许有些人比我们优秀，就像我们认为自己比最卑鄙的人优秀一样。

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Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.

邪恶总是通过人类无休止的报复来制造更多的腐蚀性的痛苦。

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Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

瞧!可怜的印第安人，他们无知的心灵在云中看到上帝，在风中听到上帝的声音。

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Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

艺术是人类灵魂中储存的蜂蜜，用痛苦和辛劳的翅膀收集而成。

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The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.

犯罪的不是那犯罪的，乃是那造成黑暗的。

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The law's the law, but people are people.

法律就是法律，人就是人。

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It is sin to steal a pin.

偷针是罪恶的。

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