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Thinking about profound social change, conservatives always expect disaster, while revolutionaries confidentially expect utopia. Both are wrong.

  • -- Carolyn Heilbrun 海尔布伦

考虑到深刻的社会变革，保守主义者总是期待灾难，而革命者则暗地里期待乌托邦。两者都是错误的。

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Social conservatives are very focused on strengthening the family, and I think they are right to do so. One of the worst blind spots of the Left has been its reluctance to say that marriage matters for children.

社会保守派非常注重加强家庭，我认为他们这样做是正确的。左派最大的盲点之一就是不愿意说婚姻对孩子很重要。

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Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.

政治极端主义包括两个主要因素:对世界弊病的过于简单的诊断，以及坚信在这一切背后有可识别的恶棍。

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How many new rock stars have come around that have anything to say at all? Guys where you even want to know what they're thinking? Are they thinking? Where did it go astray?

有多少新晋摇滚明星有话要说?你甚至想知道他们在想什么?他们在想什么?它跑到哪里去了?

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Conservatism is more candid to behold another's worth; reform more disposed to maintain and increase its own.

保守主义更能坦率地看到别人的价值;改革更倾向于保持和增加自己的影响力。

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Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.

自由主义者觉得他们的财产不值得拥有。保守派认为他们所偷的一切都是他们应得的。

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Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.

大多数思维上的错误是感知上的不足，而不是逻辑上的错误。

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