Those of us who pushed for the bill will consider ourselves most successful if it acts as an incentive not to have it invoked in the first place.

我们这些推动该法案的人将认为自己是最成功的，如果它能作为一种激励，使其在一开始就不被动用。

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I want my face to carry the love that tells them that they and every one of us are worth more than our most terrible ACTS.

我想通过我的脸传递给他们一个信息，那就是他们和我们每一个人都可以更有价值，比起我们过去可怕的罪孽。

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Imagination can make us anything, and, even if a Teiresias Syndrome leads to no overt ACTS, literature can make us anything and put us anywhere.

想象能使我们成为一切，并且，即使提瑞西阿斯综合症没有引起明显的行为，还有文学能使我们成为一切，把我们置于任何境地。

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Such behavior has signaled to jihadists seeking to impose on the rest of us the totalitarian ideology they call shariah that acts of violence - or even threats of violence - against us will be met with accommodations and concessions whenever the stated justification is outrage over some perceived insult to Islam.

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