The Syrians straddle the fence between the order of conservative nations on the one hand and this alliance with Iran on the other and it would make perfect sense for Bashar al-Assad to pose as the mediator with the Iranians, which means: hey,if you folks think I'm bad, think of the Iranians,they're much worse, but I have credit in their bank and I can deal with the Iranians."

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It's never perfect and we can't figure out yet a way to make it perfect and we still have small investors who are defrauded, who are treated badly.

事无完美,至今还没有完美的办法,仍然有许多小投资者,遭受欺诈,成为受害者

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I think most of us don't believe that two firms is enough to make it a perfect competition, that the regulator shouldn't worry about the third firm.

我想大多数人不相信两家公司,就足够产生完全竞争,不相信监控者不必调查第三家公司

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Well, there's an explanation of how it could be that things that are not themselves perfectly round could remind us, could make us think about perfect roundness.

这也许解释了为什么有些,本身并不是那么圆的东西,会让我们想到正圆这个型相

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But even if we didn't think we could show that the soul would continue to exist at least it could, it would make perfect sense to think about it continuing to exist.

但即使我们不觉得,我们能证明灵魂继续存在,至少有这个可能，认为灵魂不死,对很多人来说很有意义。

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