They understood the potentiality of human beings, their limitations and the predicament in which they live.

因为他们深知人的潜能,极限以及人类生活的困境

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What he's saying is that "let's study the sages,the saints, " the extraordinary people,the arrowhead" so that we can understand and realize the potential in all people.

他的意思是,“让我们学习圣人，非凡的人“,这样能帮助我们了解,人类的潜能。

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Beyond these exhortations, they relied on a good political regime to enable human beings to fulfill the capacities that were part of their nature, to train them in virtue, and to restrain them from vice.

可以看出,希腊人依赖一个良好的政治体制,以发挥个人天性中的潜能,去培养他们的美德,去遏制他们的恶习

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this is why Maslow said human nature and human potential has been sold short, when we only study the average.

这就是为什么Maslow说人性,和人的潜能会被削弱，如果我们只研究平均水平的话。

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