It is not enough merely to speak the same words, but in a sense, citizens must have certain common experiences, certain common memory and experience that shape a city and the people.

仅是说相同的话还不够，另一方面，公民还必需,要有特定的共同经历，特定的共同记忆,与形塑城市与人民的经历。

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In the case of passports, they will merely be designed to a vague common standard.

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Utopias (incidentally the coined word Utopia doesn't mean "a good place, " it means merely "a non- existent place") have been common in the literature of the past three or four hundred years, but the "favourable" ones are invariably unappetising, and usually lacking in vitality as well.

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Professionalization of a teaching profession that merely focuses on getting better PISA test scores or more efficient teaching of a common core curriculum will do no better than what we have now, and probably worse.

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