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"ref": "December 28 1998, Richard Lacayo, \"Where The Right Went Wrong,\" Time (retrieved 4 July 2015)",
"text": "Bork warns that America is in the grip of a radical individualism that recognizes no limit to the right of personal gratification, one for which the pleasure principle is the only principle that counts."
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"sense": "principle that human decisions are motivated by desire",
"word": "快樂原則"
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"sense": "principle that human decisions are motivated by desire",
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