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I'm a Utilitarian, so I don't see the rule against lying as absolute; it's always subject to some overriding utility which may prevent its exercise.

  • -- Peter Albert David Singer 彼得·艾伯特·大卫·辛格

我是个功利主义者，所以我不认为反对说谎的规则是绝对的;它总是受制于一些凌驾于它之上的实用程序，这可能会阻止它的运行。

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One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. The bamboozle has captured us. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.

历史上最惨痛的教训之一是:如果我们被愚弄的时间足够长，我们往往会拒绝任何有关这种欺骗的证据。竹竿把我们捉住了。一旦你让一个骗子控制了你，你几乎永远不会再得到它。

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Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.

爱在于付出而不求回报;给予别人不欠别人的，别人也不欠你的。这就是为什么真爱从来就不是建立在公平交换的基础上的，就像功利或快乐的联想一样。

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To say a poem is absolute is saying nothing, because an ink blot can be absolute. Yet you put into it what you like. So it becomes totally relative.

说一首诗是绝对的就等于什么也没说，因为墨迹是绝对的。然而，你把你喜欢的放进它。所以它变得完全相对。

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I'm telling you that there is no silver bullet to keep home prices from going down or to prevent all foreclosures.

我要告诉你们的是，没有什么灵丹妙药可以阻止房价下跌，或者防止所有人丧失房屋赎回权。

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I have a taste for a kind of melancholy and for being an absolute victim of love.

我喜欢一种忧郁，喜欢成为爱情的牺牲品。

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Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast.

散步是最好的运动。使自己习惯于走得很快。

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A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.

谎言为耶和华所憎恶。在患难中，是他随时的帮助。

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It's challenging, but you have to at least try to eat right and exercise.

这很有挑战性，但你至少要试着吃得健康，锻炼身体。

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Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what's right.

永远不要让你的道德感阻止你做正确的事情。

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Saving a life overrides territories.

拯救生命超越疆域。

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