The kinds of authority established by the bogeys of tradition and custom and conservative tradition are not always distinguishable from the kinds of authority that are based on genuine strength.

由约定俗成的习俗的幻象以及,保守的传统建立的权威,和建立在真实力量上权威难以分辨。

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Satan's saying that before the war in heaven, God's power just seemed like any other king's power, as if God sat on the throne of heaven merely because of those humanly constructed reasons of tradition, or of old repute or consent or custom.

撒旦是说在这场天上的大战之前，上帝的力量就和其他国王的力量一样，他坐在天堂的宝座上似乎仅仅是因为,人们自己营造的原因和传统，或者说是他过期的声望，他制定的法规以及约定俗成的规矩。

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They intended to be a new model for the open charity formation and it's not intended to replace the real education that happens in the classroom that is the interaction between the faculty and students and between the students.

它致力于成为,慈善性开放信息的新榜样,并且不意味着取代传统教学,传统教学在教室里,老师和学生以及,学生之间都有互动。

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They have lots of maybe good-- maybe it's not because they're irrational, it's that they're political or they're constrained by tradition or laws or regulations, all sorts of things; but, they're not holding the tangency portfolio.

他们有很多好的原因-,也许并不是因为他们不够理性，而是由于他们有自己政治上的考虑,或者是他们本身被传统,法律以及规则等一系列的因素，所限制;,因此他们不会持有切线资产组合。

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