If this theory you might say of sort of cataclysmic change is true we cannot rule out the possibility that a constitution like ours or even identical to ours existed at some point in the ancient past in the far distant past that Aristotle knew about.

你们可能认为，如果这个理论,即剧烈变革的理论为真,我们就不能排除,像美国宪法,或相同于美国之其它现存宪法,早在远古。

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Even if I have few or no memories, identical to the ones that I had when I was 10, that's OK.

即使我对于10岁那年的东西，记得的很少或是什么也不记得了，没有关系。

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