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“THEY CAME FIRST for the Communists,

and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist.

THEN THEY CAME for the Jews,

and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew.

THEN THEY CAME for the trade unionists,

and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist.

THEN THEY CAME for the Catholics,

and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant.

THEN THEY CAME for me,

and by that time no one was left to speak up.”

This statement, attributed to Pastor Martin Niemoeller, has become a legendary expression of the lesson of the Holocaust. Ironically, Niemoller had delivered antisemitic sermons early in the Nazi regime. He later opposed Hitler and was sent to a concentration camp.

PS.今天是BLOG DAY，了解了一下，要求还挺多，要链接还要推荐什么，我就不按你的要求来，气死你。

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IT WAS the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way- in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

这是一段优美的开场，甚至可以用悠扬来形容。很遗憾，我没有读过这本书，甚至不知道这本书的故事梗概，但这段开场却是我耳熟能详的，今天偶然看到，不忍私藏，贴出来供众位品位（因为翻译的再好都不能原汁原味体现作者的感觉，所以就不贴中文了）。

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FORREST:
Jenny, I don’t know if Momma was right or if, if it’s Lieutenant Dan.
I don’t know if we each have a destiny, or if we’re all just floating
around accidental-like on a breeze, but I, I think maybe it’s both. Maybe
both is happening at the same time. I miss you, Jenny.
If there’s anything you need, I won’t be far away.

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1. go through a GRE book

2. listen to english commented baseball games for a summer

3. read Hemingway

4. read Economist

5. watch South Park

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首先，不是背，而是记忆，前者在感情上是被动的，而后者可能是主动的。另外，对于这个问题，我想反问：这么优美的文章，这么漂亮的句子，你怎么能忍得住不把它们记下来呢？不是我要背它们，而是它们强行进入了我的大脑，你说我有什么办法？
——某位高手，在回答如何才能背过英语课文的时候，如是说

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