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Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

  • -- Thomas Babington Macaulay 麦考莱

许多政治家习惯于把它作为一个不言自明的命题，即在人们能够充分利用他们的自由之前，没有人应该是自由的。这句格言就像古老故事里的傻瓜，他决定在学会游泳之前不下水。

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To be able to make up stories has been a great gift to me from my ancestors and from the storytellers who were so numerous at Laguna Pueblo when I was growing up. I learned to read as soon as I could because I wanted stories without having to depend on adults to tell or read stories to me.

能够编故事是我的祖先给我的一份伟大的礼物，也是我成长过程中拉古纳普韦布洛许许多多的说书人给我的礼物。我尽可能快地学会了阅读，因为我想要的是故事，而不是依赖成年人给我讲故事或给我读故事。

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Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it.

养成告诉别人谢谢你的习惯。真诚地表达你的感激之情，不求任何回报。真正感激身边的人，你很快就会发现身边还有很多人。真正珍惜生活，你会发现你拥有的更多。

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And so I learned what solitude really was. It was raw material - awesome, malleable,older than men or worlds or water. And it was merciless - for it let a man become precisely what he alone made of himself.

所以我明白了什么是真正的孤独。它是原材料——棒极了，有延展性，比人类、世界和水还要古老。它是无情的——因为它让一个人变成了他自己。

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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

在我们的国家里，由于上帝的仁慈，我们拥有三种说不出的宝贵的东西:言论自由、良心自由，以及从不实践这三种东西的谨慎。

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That equals to being a fool, having fame and no fortune. A lot of guys out there have fame doing this and doing that, but they are broke.

那等于做一个傻瓜，有名望而没有财富。很多人在做这个或那个方面都很有名气，但是他们都破产了。

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Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.

很多时候，人们会误解演员是那种需要在公众面前展示自己的人。

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I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.

我从万古就存在，看哪，我在这里。我将存在到时间的尽头，因为我的存在没有尽头。

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Most people I know live their lives moving in a constant forward direction, the whole time looking backward.

我认识的大多数人生活在一个不断向前的方向，一直在向后看。

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There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime.

有些人提高了他们所处的年龄，直到所有的人在那一生中都走在更高的地方。

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The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

在我看来，最聪明的人是那些一个月至少称自己为傻瓜的人。

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Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.

那些为了安全而放弃自由的人将不会得到自由，他们也不配得到自由。

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You shape your habits then they shape you for the rest of your life.

你的习惯塑造了你，它们也塑造了你的余生。

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