They still are. People love these characters because they demonstrate the failings and strengths of all human beings.

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He was also a major figure in the Legal Realism school that recognized human failings and human behavior and the establishment of laws.

他同时也是法律现实主义学派的代表人物,该学派承认人性弱点和人们的行为,以及制定法律的重要性

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Our previous lecture was about behavioral finance and it was about human failings.

上节课讲的是行为金融学,它与人性弱点有关

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But,there was a big problem, that for all of his failings,human failings, and there were indeed many, and his intellectual limitations which were daunting, he was a man of faith and loyalty to his principles, for better or for worse,in this context.

但是他的弱点,人性的弱点,是个大问题,而且他的弱点确实很多,还有他的智力界限也令人沮丧,他是个固执于自己原则的人,不管原则是好是坏

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