Facts, in and of themselves, are neutral things. The power we give them is due to our attitude of acceptance or non-acceptance and our overall feeling state.

关于我们的那些事实都是中性的，我们对它们的态度，即接受或不接受，和我们整体的感情状况给了它们能量。

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It also required last August's flipflop by Britain and America: they had long rejected an Arab League proposal for trial in a neutral country, even in the face of Libya's acceptance and pressure from the victims' families.

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