Human actions determine the degree to which God can dwell on earth among his people.

人类的行为决定着上帝如何,对待他的子民。

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Please observe too that it is not his reason that will determine human actions but his will alone, free of the moderating control of reason.

注意这不是他仅凭意志,决定人类行为的理由,而是理性对自由意志产生了潜移默化的影响

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With I should say the possible exception of the economists who often will believe that economic motives and transactions provide the key to all possible human behaviors.

知识分支当中,可能的例外是经济学家,他们常认为,是经济动机与交易,决定了所有可能的人类行为。

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Buthere is the conventional aspect of property, it's a further question what counts as property, how it's defined and what counts as taking property, and that's up to the government.

但财产还有约定俗成的一面，就引出了更进一步的问题,什么才算财产，财产如何定义,且何种行为才算掠夺财产，这是由政府决定的。

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Right. - And I think that if he was making a decision to give his life and he took on the agency to sacrifice himself which some people might see as admirable and other people might disagree with that decision.

对，-我认为如果是他自己决定献出生命,如果是他自己提出要牺牲自己,也许有人会赞颂这种行为,而其他人也许会反对这个决定。

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