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Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases.

  • -- G. Stanley Hall 斯坦利·霍尔

文明对身体的要求是如此之高，以至于有些人把它称为一种疾病，尽管艺术能让弱小的身体活到更大的平均年龄，也能更好地保护我们免受传染病和细菌性疾病的侵害。

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People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilization. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilization; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater.

人们有时告诉我，比起文明，他们更喜欢野蛮。我怀疑他们是否进行了足够长的试验。就像亚历山大的人们一样，他们对文明感到厌倦;但所有的证据都表明，野蛮行为的无聊程度要大得多。

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Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.

也许，没有一个国家富裕到可以同时为战争和文明买单。我们必须做出选择;我们不能两者兼得。

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AIDS is an absolutely tragic disease. The argument about AIDS' being some kind of divine retribution is crap.

艾滋病绝对是一种悲惨的疾病。关于艾滋病是神的惩罚的争论是一派胡言。

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Life is an incurable disease.

人生是一种不治之症。

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