"As a human being and particularly as a citizen of the only country ever to suffer such a nuclear catastrophe, I believe with all my heart and soul that these horrific weapons must be eliminated."

VOA: standard.2010.08.06

De Man does not believe this. De Man thinks, on the contrary, that there is such a thing as literariness.

德曼不相信这个，反之，他认为，有书面性这种东西存在。

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They might matter a lot because humans have, in general, a confirmation bias such that once you believe something other information is then encoded along the likes to support what you believe.

可能是因为人…,所有人都有确认偏向,也就是说，一旦你相信了某件事,其他信息都会被你解读成,支持你所相信的信息。

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I'll let you read Siegel and his discussion of this possibility, ... but I think that-- what I want to get now is not necessarily any agreement on whether you believe that there's such a high excess return for stocks.

我会要求你们读西格尔的书,以及他对这种可能性的讨论，但是我认为-,你们并不需要,同意炒股的收益,远远高于其他的投资方式。

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