Just like the actual historical Napoleon kept having new beliefs and new desires, if this really was Napoleon in Michigan, he'll start having some new desires and beliefs about Michigan, which perhaps Napoleon never gave any thought to at all.Who knows?

就像历史上真正的拿破仑一样不断涌现新的信念和欲望，如果拿破仑真的出现在密西根，他将开始拥有关于密西根的新信念和欲望，这可能是拿破仑绝对没想到的，天知道呢？

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Far more unrealistic would be the belief of those who argue, and I'm thinking here of names like Immanuel Kant and others from the eighteenth and nineteenth century, that one day we can abolish war altogether, and therefore abolish the passions that give rise to conflict and war.

不切实际,将是那些争辩者的信念，就像康德或其它,十八及十九世纪的思想家，幻想有一天我们可以全面终止战争，进而废除,引起冲突与战争的激情。

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And then I'm going to electronically transfer Linda's memories and beliefs and so forth over here and implant them onto this brain.

接着我将通过电子手段把Linda的记忆,和信念之类的东西移植到这个大脑。

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Most of us most of the time hold these beliefs as a matter of faith as a matter of belief because we have learned about them from childhood because they were written by Thomas Jefferson or some other reputed high authority.

大部份的人一向将这些信念,奉为信仰，信条,因为我们从小,就是这样受教育,也因为它们是由托马斯？杰斐逊,及其它著名权贵所写。

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