The reform of politics may not be within our power but the exercise of self-control always is.

政治改革,也许并非我们能力所及,但自控的练习却永远是想要参与政治改革的个体。

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I don't want to exaggerate this too much but the largest riots in Britain in the eighteenth century are not the riots for political reform at all.

我不想过多地夸张,但十八世纪英国最大的暴乱,完全不是关于政治改革

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There it had less to do often with social forms of reform although that's not entirely true than it had to do with the Civil Rights revolution and the Vietnam War.

通常来说,它与改革的社会形态关联较小,但是它与民权革命和越战的关系,也没有人们认为的那么紧密

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