The researchers say increased importance should be given to chronic diseases of the brain and mind.

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His memory has failed him and, given the general importance that I'm attributing to problems of remembering and forgetting, I think it's safe to assume that something important is going on here.

他的记忆背叛了他并且让我在这里提出的,关于记忆与遗忘的问题变得重要起来，我想假设这里有某种重要的事情发生了并不为过。

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This, in many ways arguably, makes him the founding father or maybe we should say godfather of modern liberalism, the importance given to rights over duties, of the individual over in many ways the collective or common good.

正是这个稍带争议的观点,使他成了现代自由主义的奠基人,甚至可以说是创始人,因为个人权力优先于义务就意味着,个人利益将优先于集体利益。

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