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Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.

  • -- Brian Aldiss 奥尔迪斯

文明是人类把自己和排泄物之间的距离。

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A race preserves its vigour so long as it harbours a real contrast between what has been and what may be, and so long as it is nerved by the vigour to adventure beyond the safeties of the past. Without adventure, civilization is in full decay.

一个民族，只要它在过去和将来之间存在着一种真正的对比，只要它有勇气去冒险，超越过去的安全，它就能保持活力。没有冒险，文明就会完全衰落。

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A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other.

一个文明的国家可以没有敌人，一个人不能在地图上画一条线，这条线甚至在自然界中都不存在，说丑陋的敌人生活在一边，好朋友生活在另一边。

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Behind every great man is not a woman, she is beside him, she is with him, not behind him.

每个伟大男人的背后都不是一个女人，她在他身边，她在他身边，而不是在他背后。

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The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.

聪明人是知道事物相对价值的人。

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