Our vision is not merely made in America, but rather reflects the aspirations embodied in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the mandate of the Human Rights Council itself,".

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The universal state will never allow for or does not allow for the kind of self-perfection that a small, self-governing polis will have.

万国之城将永不会允许,或说不会允许一种自我完善,那只有在小型，自治的城邦中才行得通。

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They'll think you're not the universal God of history.

他们会认为你不是万能的神。

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Not ignore the universal within each one of us.

不要忽视我们每一个人身上的普遍性。

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