In any group of people there is a small minority, I want to emphasize small, who just love to do risky things.

任何一个人类群体,总有一小撮人,我说是很少的一部分人,他们很喜欢投机冒险

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The competent person who blunders, this is the person that I love.

有能力的人，偶尔出丑，大爱啊。

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and they reply in German, "Yes, I'm French," that doesn't--language doesn't necessarily tell you how people feel about their identity. Some sage once said, I don't know who it was, but I love this expression, that a language is a dialect with a powerful army.

然后他们用德语回答,"我是法国人",不一定--语言不一定能代表,对自己的身份认同,有个哲人说过,我忘了是谁,但我特喜欢这句,说语言就是有强大军队撑腰的方言

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