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It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves.

  • -- Giambattista Vico 维科

的确，人类自己创造了这个由民族组成的世界……但是，毫无疑问，这个世界产生于一种思想，这种思想往往是多样化的，有时是完全相反的，而且总是超越人们向自己提出的特定目标。

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Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.

最近，一些国家被迫借了数十亿美元用于战争;从来没有一个国家在很大程度上借钱用于教育……没有一个国家富裕到既能支付战争又能支付文明的费用。我们必须做出选择;我们不能两者兼得。

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They say that our sovereign is above his laws to his pleasure, and he may make it and break it as he pleases, without any distinction. The contrary is true, or else he should not have sworn to keep it.

他们说我们的君王凌驾于他的律法之上，他可以随心所欲地制定和违反律法，没有任何区别。事实正好相反，否则他不应该发誓遵守诺言。

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In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best.

在世界上每一个特定的国家，那些最强大的国家往往会战胜其他国家;在某些显著的特性中，最强的往往是最好的。

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Why, I hold fate Clasped in my fist, and could command the course Of time’s eternal motion, hadst thou been One thought more steady than an ebbing sea.

啊，我把命运紧紧地握在我的拳头里，我可以指挥时间永恒的运动，只要你是一个比正在退潮的大海更坚定的思想。

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It is time to recognize a simple fact of life. Contrary to what some of my colleagues seem to believe, tax cuts do not pay for themselves.

是时候认识到生活中一个简单的事实了。与我的一些同事似乎认为的相反，减税本身并不划算。

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San Franciscans know we live in the most beautiful city in the world, a jewel on the edge of the Golden Gate.

旧金山人知道我们住在世界上最美丽的城市，金门边上的一颗宝石。

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It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.

宁愿毁灭整个世界，也不愿被我的手指划伤，这并不违背理性。

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Society therefore is an ancient as the world.

因此，社会是一个古老的世界。

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