"We have a moral imperative to do this. We are the greatest country that ever existed in the history of the world, the great economic leader of the developed world, but the only one that does have access to quality, affordable health care for our people, and we intend to do so,".

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It is clearly connected this notion of spiritedness or this thumotic quality to our capacities for heroism and for self-sacrifice.

这样定义的意志,或说，Thumos，特质,明显地与我们追求英雄主义及献身有关连。

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