Books cannot change the world, but people change the world by changing themselves through reading.

书本不能改变世界，但是人们通过阅读改变他们自己来改变世界。

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We cannot change the past.

我们无法改变过去。

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But we cannot change the reality.

但我们无法改变现实。

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The punishment will not change: violators cannot be jailed or fined more than one hundred dollars.

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If this theory you might say of sort of cataclysmic change is true we cannot rule out the possibility that a constitution like ours or even identical to ours existed at some point in the ancient past in the far distant past that Aristotle knew about.

你们可能认为，如果这个理论,即剧烈变革的理论为真,我们就不能排除,像美国宪法,或相同于美国之其它现存宪法,早在远古。

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This has become the official mantra in many ways of the AA movement: "God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; the courage to change the things I can change; " and wisdom to know the difference."

它已成为AA运动的正式圣言：,“主啊，请赐我安详，接纳我不能改变的事物;,请赐我勇气，去改变我可以改变的东西;,并赐我智慧去认识这两者的差别“

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Despite his great rhetorical gifts, Netanyahu cannot change the terms of international debate by himself.

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If you cannot change the law, if you cannot create the law, follow the law.

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Nevertheless, all the alarmist bullying and media bullying in the world cannot change the scientific facts.

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