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Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power but absolute power is corrupt only in the hands of the absolutely faithful.

绝对的信仰如同绝对的权利那样会彻底腐化，不过绝对的权利只会在绝对的信仰手中腐化。

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By means of them, the sufferer's conscience had been kept in an irritated state, the tendency of which was, not to cure by wholesome pain, but to disorganise and corrupt his spiritual being.

凡此种种，使那个受苦人的良心始终处于一种烦躁状态，长此以往，不但不会以有益健康的痛苦治愈他，反而会紊乱和腐蚀他的精神生命。

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But Afghanistan fell three places to just above Somalia, meaning Afghanistan is seen as the second most corrupt country.

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God created a good world, But humans in the exercise of their moral autonomy, They have the power to corrupt the good.

上帝创作了一个美好的世界，但人类掌控自己的道德，他们有能力腐蚀美好事物。

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You know, it's good. But it's corrupt sometimes.

它的确很棒，但是它有时候也很腐败。

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Floyd Norris of The New York Times weighed in and, in a nutshell, said that, in his expert opinion, the accounting was correct but unfortunately corrupt.

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The best thing in the film is the cannily crafted soundtrack, which is filled with audio clips from television, suggesting pop-culture circuses that not only amuse and distract the people but also corrupt them.

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"Manmohan Singh is not corrupt, but he is definitely guilty, " Mr Khare wrote in The Hindu newspaper.

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