"It is really setting a good example that it does not matter what office you hold in the country."

VOA: standard.2010.08.03

You know that you're not going to decide the election, so what does it matter?

你知道你并不能决定选举结果,那投票还是不投票又有什么关系

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As one examines their actions and lives," he writes, "one does not see that they had anything else from fortune than the opportunity which gave them the matter enabling them " to introduce any form they please.

他写到：，“当一个人在检视其行为与生命时“,他们所见的时运,不外乎提供他们,物质的机会,让他们能推行,任何他们喜欢的形式。

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