I believe that is true. If you make the effort to do the best of what you are capable, trying to improve the situation that exists for you, I think that is success and I do not think others can judge that."

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If you believe that homosexuals are effeminate, that gay men are effeminate, then this is going to shape how you see future gay men.

如果你相信同性恋者都是娘娘腔，男同性恋者都是娘娘腔，这会影响你对以后见到的同性恋者的看法。

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Now, after all, even if you believe that, well, your soul will go to heaven so you won't cease to exist as a person, you might still believe that your body will die.

说到底，即便你相信，自己的灵魂会上天堂,所以作为个人不会死亡，你还是会相信自己的身体是会消亡。

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But, you know, any professor who stands before you should say the same thing about his or her subject. If they don't believe that, they shouldn't be teaching.

但是，你知道，所有站在你们面前的老师,可能都会这样介绍他的课程,如果他们不那样相信着，那他们就不应该教那门课了。

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I believe that these are the foundational moments of theorizing and that if you're going to teach anything like a survey, you've got to derive the rest of it from whatever the moment I happen to subscribe to might be."

我相信这些都对建立理论非常重要,如果你想教概论之类的东西，那么其它的部分都得是我赞同的才行“

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And if you disagree with that, you must believe in the principle of self possession.

不同意这一点的，你肯定相信自我拥有的原则。

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And the Pygmalion effect is if I believe you have a certain characteristic this might cause you to behave as if you have that characteristic.

皮格马利翁效应就是说,如果我相信你有某种特点,就可能导致你表现得,好像你真的有这种特点一样。

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Having learned, or having agreed, let's say, with my prejudice, which is that the Higher Naivete must reign -and if the Greeks said it happened, you got to believe it happened, until you have to believe that it didn't happen.

以我的成见,他已经达到或认同,"高级天真",如果古希腊人说确有其事,你要相信它确实发生,除非你不得不相信它其实并未发生过

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If you didn't really believe that your body was going to die, why would you ever bother writing a will?

如果人们不相信自己的肉体会消亡，为什么要花功夫写遗嘱？

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If you didn't really believe you were going to die, that is undergo bodily death, why would you take out life insurance?

如果人们不相信自己会死，不相信肉体的消亡，那为什么买人寿保险？

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You're a better liar, more generally, if you believe the lie that you're telling.

一个行骗高手在通常情况下，会对自己所说的谎言深信不疑。

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Suppose that if you--Suppose we believed--we had good reason to believe-- if you really took seriously the thought that you were going to die, you couldn't stop screaming.

假设我们有很好的理由相信-,如果你确实很认真地相信自己会死，你会尖叫不断这个事实。

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And again, I'm not gonna go on and on about this point, it worth noticing that even if you do believe that soul exist, nothing stops you from accepting the body theory of personal identity.

重申一下，我不想一直,讨论这个问题，我们得明白,即使你相信灵魂的存在，你也可以同时接受,人格同一性的肉体存在论。

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After all, even if you believe in a soul, as I have remarked previously, that doesn't give us yet any reason to believe the soul continues to exist after the death of your body.

毕竟,就像我之前说过的,即使灵魂是存在的,那也不能说明,灵魂在肉体死后,仍然能继续存在下去

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And tributary, of course, if you don't believe in souls, if you don't believe in soul's exist, that you certainly can't appear to the existence of souls, the continuative soul, the sameness of soul as the key to personal identity.

还有，必然地，如果你不相信灵魂这回事，如果你不相信它的存在，你肯定无法,进一步相信什么灵魂的延续，无法相信同样的灵魂,是保证人格同一性的关键。

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Suppose,for example,that if you really did believe, fundamentally,unconsciously,all the way down-- however we should put it--if you really did believe you were going to die, the horror of that would lead you to start screaming and just keep screaming.

假设，比如你真的相信，根本上潜意识里相信-,你真的相信自己有朝一日会死，这种恐惧会让你一直尖叫不已。

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Of course,these are also theological matters, and so I'm not trying to say anything here today to argue you out of the theological conviction that God will resurrect the body or God will transplant your personality into some new angel body, but if you believe in the personality theory, that will be you,or what have you.

当然，这些也是神学上的问题，我今天不会和你争辩,上帝能复活肉体或者将人格移植,进入新的某个天使的肉体，但如果你相信人格理论，那还是将成为你。

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