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A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.

  • -- Eric Hoffer 埃里克·霍弗

持不同意见的少数人只有在能够将自己的意志强加于多数人时才会感到自由:它最痛恨的是多数人的不同意见。

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It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.

被少数人压迫是不好的，但被多数人压迫更坏。因为群众中有一种潜在的力量，叫它发挥作用，少数人是很难抗拒的。但出于全体人民的绝对意志，除了叛国之外，没有任何呼吁，没有任何救赎，没有任何庇护。

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As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.

据我所知，只有一小部分数学家，甚至包括那些柏拉图主义者，接受这样的观点，即可能存在真实但不可知的数学事实。

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The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

当我们处于少数时，勇气的考验就来了。当我们占多数的时候，宽容的考验就来了。

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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

每当你发现自己站在大多数人一边时，就是停下来反思的时候了。

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Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

信念是黎明前黑暗时仍能感觉到光明的鸟。

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Let's face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in.

让我们面对现实吧。没有哪个高中生觉得自己很合群。

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