The humility is to empty us, to follow the truth, and to keep learning all our life, but not self-righteous, not turning to our own way.

谦卑是倒空自己， 顺服真理， 活到老学到老， 不自以为是， 不偏行已路。

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In the alternative view, an elite coterie of self-righteous academics seek not to level the playing field but to dominate it, imposing their particular world view on everyone else.

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Through the decades, however, the masses have responded most intensely not to calculated appeals to their self-interest (though that didn't hurt) but to selfless, if not self-sacrificing, crusades for what is seen to be just and righteous.

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