In 1933, during the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt sought to give hope with these words: "Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

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In other words, my belief-- and I am going to back that up with research today and for the next semester-- is human nature is fixed.

换言之，那是我相信的观点-,我会用三个研究加以证明，从今天开始,直到下个学期-,人类本性是固有的。

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For what it's worth--and I don't actually think that what I'm about to say is worth all that much-- I'm going to share with you my own pet belief.

不论这的价值如何，我并不觉得,我将要说的这些有多少价值-,我只是想分享一下自己的拙见。

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And it's precisely for this reason that at least the soul, belief in the soul, combined with the soul theory of personal identity holds out the possibility of surviving my death.

就因为这个原因,至少灵魂，相信灵魂，在加上灵魂理论的人格同一性,建立起我不死的可能性。

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In many moods--at least,when I think about not the simple, the ordinary David Smith case with a single belief or two, but the full bodied--that's a bad term-- the full blown Napoleon case with all the memories,all the beliefs.

至少我想到的不是，这个简单的只拥有一两个信念的案例，而是完全的，不该这么说-,完整的拥有全部记忆和信念的拿破仑。

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