And that would often actually the right answer to take, is to not just compromise among your advisers, but use your own principles to make a decision.

而且通常情况,他的观点是对的，并不是向智囊团的意见妥协，而是根据自己的原则做决定。

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Language has powers that are entirely unpredictable, that can't be harnessed in precisely that deliberate way: by making a decision to take someone's words in the wrong way, or by telling a story to make a moral point, as the mother does.

语言的力量无可估量，绝不是单单使用一下那么简单：,而是通过假意遵从，以及勾起人性良知的方式表达的。

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