She said: "Just like in golf, you always learn more when you lose than when you win."

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Although this kind of talk about "armed prophets always win" is characteristic of Machiavelli, he likes this kind of tough talk.

虽然这种关于,“武装先知总是赢“的言论“,是马奇亚维利的特色，但他真的喜欢这种顽固的论调。

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Does he not say that armed prophets always win, the unarmed prophets lose? Did he not say that he wrote to reveal the effectual truth of things and ? not just what people have imagined the case to be?

难道他没说过武装的先知总能取胜而，徒手的先知总是失败？，难道他没说过,他写作是为了揭示出事物的本来面目,证明事物并非人们幻想的那个样子？

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