The curator says, Steven Spielberg is interested in what she calls "the moral core" that can be seen in many of Rockwell's images.

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And it is that conflict, as it were, between what we might call worldliness and innocence that is the core of Machiavelli's moral code.

可以说，正是那种冲突,那种我们可以称之为世俗理念与纯洁无知之间,的冲突，是马基雅维利道德准则的核心所在。

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