And yet, in many ways, Socrates diagnoses very powerfully an important condition of modern democratic life with which we are all familiar.

但在很多方面，苏格拉底却也诊断了,非常有力且重要的,现在民主生活条件,那是我们都很熟悉的。

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"This is nothing but a perversion, distortion and subversion of all the norms of democratic life, " party spokesman S. Jaipal Reddy said.

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They are an important element of democratic life in Jordan.

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"It is particularly important because newspapers have played, and continue to play, a fundamental role in our democratic life, " said Patten, who called for some kind of self-regulatory code of behaviour akin to the Hippocratic Oath.

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