"Some people have had these for 15 or 20 years and never been able to get one to bloom, so we are really lucky here to have one."

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

There's never been a successful third-party political culture take hold in this country without one really big issue to drive it.

美国就从没有过,第三政党真正成功执政的时候,因为缺乏一个真正重大的议题来支持它

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I call the second argument "The argument from recycling"-- not the best label I suppose, but I've never been able to come up with a better one.

我把第二个观点称为"循环观点",可能这不是最好的名称,但是我没有想到更好的

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So, even if we were to agree with the pessimists that it would be better never to have been born at all, as the old joke goes, show me one person in a thousand who's so lucky, right?

所以，即使我们要同意悲观主义者的观点,根本不出生更好，就像老笑话讲的那样，给我千里挑一找到一个走运的人？

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