"I went over to Africa as a socialist, and after about five or six years of hitting my head against the wall, became a small "c" capitalist."

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

You will have to shed the tears and you've got to bang your head on the wall and go through your own private struggle.

你们也要激动到流泪,懊悔到用脑袋撞墙,兴奋挣扎都要亲身经历

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I hope that you'll have that in the back of your head when we get to the story of Athens and the invention of democracy, because it was off the wall from the perspective of Greek tradition.

我希望,当我们讲到雅典神话,以及民主制的诞生时,你们还记得这点,因为从希腊人的传统观点来看,这是很不寻常的

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