The problem was that they listened to the wrong story.

问题在于他们听从了一个错误的故事。

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It's a simple story of redemption and the power of the human spirit, so how can you go wrong with that."

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Language has powers that are entirely unpredictable, that can't be harnessed in precisely that deliberate way: by making a decision to take someone's words in the wrong way, or by telling a story to make a moral point, as the mother does.

语言的力量无可估量，绝不是单单使用一下那么简单：,而是通过假意遵从，以及勾起人性良知的方式表达的。

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So if astronomers have the composition of even some asteroids wrong, they might also have the wrong story about the birth of the earth.

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With too many that fall for the wrong story.

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Generally, in a running story, the more the media accept a story line, the more wrong that story line is.

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