他读了一段爱默生的作品。

He read a passage from Emerson.

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如果你总是以某种方式或做某种事情，但它不再适合你，或者你不满足，爱默生说，即使是与我们自己的过去保持一致也是愚蠢的。

If you've always been a certain way or done a certain thing, but it's not working for you any more, or you're not content, Emerson says that it'd be foolish to be consistent even with our own past.

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爱默生总是把他突然想到的新想法写下来。

Emerson would always set down new ideas that occurred to him.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: "All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one, "-- a lot to backed that up in social science research.

爱默生说：,“人类历史是少数派，和一个人的少数派的权力记录，很多社会科学研究支持这个观点。

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So you, like, read Emerson, Melville - "Moby Dick", stuff like that.

所以，那个阶段，你能读到爱默生，还有《大白鲸》的作者梅尔维尔。

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Even such concepts, such great American concepts let's call it that--as self-reliance about which Ralph Waldo Emerson may have written his greatest essay I go read Emerson's "Self-Reliance" at least once a year.

这样的观念,伟大的美国式的观念,让我们称呼它为,自助,这是拉尔夫·华尔多·爱默生写过的,最具影响力的作品,我每年至少读一次爱默生的《自助》

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