How America deals with blacks and their aspirations will define for decades and perhaps centuries what kind of country America really is.

美国怎样对待黑人及其愿望将决定在未来几十年几百年内美国到底会是个什么样的社会。

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For centuries Oxford has been at Britain's intellectual heart, perhaps the most prestigious among Europe's many ancient universities.

几个世纪以来，牛津大学一直是英国知识分子的中心，它或许是欧洲众多古老大学中最负盛名的。

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Here is what we found: of the hundreds of self-change techniques that have been suggested over the centuries, perhaps only a dozen are distinctly different.

我们的发现结果如下：在几个世纪以来人们提出的几百种改变自我的方法中，也许仅有十来种与其他方法截然不同。

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They are the Navajo - whose ancestors walked that land at least a century, perhaps many centuries, before the first Europeans arrived.

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Perhaps if Francis Xavier had come to Japan four centuries later, and had the opportunity to experience Aoyama's masterpieces, he would have better understood the spirit of sho if not the "devil's language" it transforms.

WSJ: The Vision and Calligraphy of Aoyama San'u | Tokyo National Museum | Transformational Characters | By Michael Judge

First coined in Florence, florins circulated widely in Europe for centuries in Britain until 1971 and may yet perhaps make a post-euro return.

ECONOMIST: Botticelli and his bankers

"For the past two centuries, we have forged a nation by emphasizing our common beliefs, our common ideals and, perhaps most important ... our common language, " Solomon said on the House floor.

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