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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

  • -- George Orwell 乔治·奥威尔

总的来说，人类想要变好，但不是太好，也不是一直都很好。

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Experience taught me that working families are often just one pay check away from economic disaster. And it showed me first-hand the importance of every family having access to good health care.

经验告诉我，工薪家庭离经济灾难往往只有一步之遥。它向我直接展示了每个家庭获得良好卫生保健的重要性。

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We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not.

我们生活在一个相当暗淡的时代。我在空气中感觉到。一切都是不确定的。不管我们喜不喜欢，一切都感觉像是处于某种重大变革的悬崖边上。

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It is a building designed by committee: all they have been able to agree on is that it should be rectangular, have windows, and not fall over.

这是一个由委员会设计的建筑:他们所能达成的一致意见是，它应该是长方形的，有窗户，而且不能倒塌。

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If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

如果一个人有良好的性格，还需要什么其他的美德?人若有名声，其馀的妆饰还有什么价值呢?

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If you cannot be a sun that illuminates the light, be a moon that never tires of reflecting the light.

如果你不能成为照亮阳光的太阳，那就做一个永不厌倦反射阳光的月亮。

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Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

美德是一种战争状态，要生活在其中，我们必须与自己斗争。

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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

所有不符合公认美德的同情，都是伪装的自私。

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Thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

因此，时间的旋转带来了他的复仇。

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We are only as good as our last decision.

我们最后的决定有多好就有多好。

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The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.

只有美德的回报才可靠。

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