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No doubt Western civilization has in the past been full of wars and revolutions, and the national elements in our culture, even when they were ignored, always provided an unconscious driving force of passion and aggressive self-assertion.

  • -- Christopher Dawson 克里斯多夫·道森

毫无疑问，西方文明在过去充满了战争和革命，而我们文化中的民族元素，即使被忽视，也总是提供了一种无意识的动力，激情和侵略性的自我主张。

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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

一个真正充满活力的社会的标志之一是，作为一个行动的助产士，能够摒弃激情——能够直接从思想转移到行动。

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We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.

我们过去认为革命是变革的原因。实际上恰恰相反:变革为革命奠定了基础。

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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

我的错，我的失败，不在于我的激情，而在于我无法控制它们。

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For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.

对我来说，礼貌是文明的必要条件。

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The first sign of civilization is always trash.

文明的第一个标志总是垃圾。

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