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Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?

  • -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam 阿卜杜尔·卡拉姆

作为一个国家，我们为何如此痴迷于外国事物?它是我们殖民时代的遗产吗?我们需要外国电视机。我们要洋装。我们需要外国技术。为什么对进口商品如此痴迷?

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There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.

只有一条适用于所有人的法律，那就是支配所有法律的法律，我们造物主的法律，人类的法律，正义，公平的法律——自然和国家的法律。

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Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer.

痴迷是人类最浪费时间的行为，因为沉迷于一个问题，你会反反复复地问同一个问题，却永远得不到答案。

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A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.

一个民族与其说是思想和理论的集合体，不如说是一种执着。

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The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

最幸福的女人，就像最幸福的民族一样，没有历史。

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