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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. (Eleanor Roosevelt)

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies. (Ann Landers)

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. (Jean de La Fontaine)

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Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future. (Lewis B. Smedes)

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. (Helen Keller)

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　　The many civilizations adopted by the human race have shared basic characteristics. Most have tended toward cultural uniformityand stability. Standard form of government has been monarchy. Rulers have been thought to be divine or appointed spokesmen for divinity. Religious and political institutions and beliefs have been thoroughly intertwined as a mutually supportive unified structure. Government has rested on religious authority, tradition, and power. The concept of individual freedom has had no importance in these great majorities of cultures in human history. The first and the sharpest break with this common human experience came in ancient Greece. (摘自耶鲁教授、历史学家Donald Kagan多年前的公开课，Jack听写，有删减)

　　- uniformity /?ju?n??f??m?ti/: 大一统 (uni- 单一的；form 形状，形态)

　　- monarchy /?mɑ?n?rki/: n. 君主制

　　- monarch: 君主；君王

　　- divine /d??va?n/: adj. 与神灵相关的，神圣的

　　- divinity: n. 神灵

　　- intertwine /??nt?r?twa?n/: v. 互相缠绕在一起 (twine 缠绕，纠缠，纠结；inter- 互相)

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