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Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom.

  • -- Robert Hall 霍尔

无论什么东西，只要是古代所支持的、权威所强制的、风俗所推荐的，人类就容易产生强烈的偏见。

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The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

自然知识的改善者绝对拒绝承认权威本身。对他来说，怀疑是最高的责任;盲目的信心是不可饶恕的罪。

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Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and smaller.

权威是我们不断从它身上减去的东西，它总有残余，我们试图把它变得越来越小。

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It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

有人说人是理性的动物。我一生都在寻找支持这一观点的证据。

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Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

人类不会编织生命之网。他只是其中的一小部分。无论他对网络做了什么，他对自己也做了什么。

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I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.

我认为你可以把艺术，无论优劣，留给人类的良知去决定。

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My days are whatever I want them to be.

我的每一天都是我想要的。

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