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To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.

  • -- Thomas Paine 托马斯·潘恩

说任何一个人都不适合自由，就是让贫困成为他们的选择，说他们宁愿背负重税也不愿不负担。

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The choice of personnel, perhaps the most important choice (because 'people are policy'), never proceeds according to plan, but there have been some successful transitions that upheld high standards.

人员的选择，也许是最重要的选择(因为“人就是政策”)，从来不会按照计划进行，但也有一些成功的过渡支持高标准。

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Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society.

经济学家们开始认识到，严格按照平均收入来衡量国家财富和贫困，并不能说明一个社会的健康状况或生存能力有多么重要。

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My life in general and the thoughts it beholds are never dedicated to a certain road. Rather they flow with the wind, changing directions as the mountains steer them sideways.

总的来说，我的生活和它所包含的思想从来没有献身于某条道路。相反，它们随风而动，随着山脉的倾斜而改变方向。

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What is inherently wrong with the word 'politician' if the fellow has devoted his life to holding public office and trying to do something for his people?

如果一个人把他的一生都奉献给了担任公职，并试图为他的人民做些什么，那么“政治家”这个词本身就有什么问题?

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The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

为了观点而压迫任何一个人，除了加深这些观点并使它们变得更重要之外，很少有其他效果。

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I am opposed to any individual taxes until we eliminate all of the unconstitutional agencies, and I suspect we wouldn't need a tax after that.

我反对任何个人税收，除非我们废除所有违宪的机构，我怀疑在那之后我们就不需要征税了。

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For too long people have backed companies on hope value rather than solid products coming out. Now we are coming out the other side.

长期以来，人们都是根据希望价值而非可靠产品来支持企业的。现在我们从另一边出来。

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I have the choice to be angry at God for what i don't have, or be thankful for what I do have.

我可以选择为我所没有的向上帝发怒，或者为我所拥有的心存感激。

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Be careful who you open up to. Only a few people actually care, the rest are just curious.

小心你向谁敞开心扉。只有少数人真正在意，其余的人只是好奇。

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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

我宁愿有危险的自由，也不愿有奴役的和平。

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Large desire is endless poverty.

巨大的欲望就是无尽的贫穷。

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I am for lowering taxes.

我赞成减税。

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