"Throughout history, countless men and women have dreamt of flying like a bird under their own power, and hundreds, if not thousands have attempted to achieve it," he said in a statement.

“历史上，无数男女梦想着通过自己的力量像鸟儿一样飞翔，如果没有上千人，也至少有上百人曾尝试着去实现这个梦想”他在一次发言中这样说道。

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They represent countless men and women, uniformed and civilian, who work, often in obscurity, to keep our country safe.

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Instead of vague hypotheses about the transmission of culture to those who were not supposed to have it, Mr Rose returns us to the actual thoughts and feelings of the countless working men and women who insisted, often against the odds, on finding things out for themselves.

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