It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.

  • -- Joseph Addison 约瑟夫·艾迪生

这是子孙后代的特权,使那些因追求伟大而分裂了整个时代的对手之间的事情变得正确。

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The way you get your script to the right people is that you put it in an envelope. It's easy. The difficult bit is writing something that is so good people will take a punt on a brand new writer.

把脚本交给合适的人的方法是把它放在信封里。很容易。困难的部分是写一些很好的东西,人们会把赌注押在一个全新的作家身上。

I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I'm a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work.

我现在的生活真的很美好,所以没有理由充满敌意。我是一个丈夫,一个父亲,一个努力在生活和工作中做正确事情的男人。

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

一生中只有一个朋友就够了;两个有很多;三个是不可能的。友谊需要生活的某种并行性,思想的共同体,目标的竞争。

Single payer means something different to everyone. The way I define it is that health care is a right and not a privilege.

单一支付者对每个人都有不同的意义。我对它的定义是,医疗保健是一种权利,而不是特权。

An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.

对手段的无知可以造就伟大,但对目标的无知使其根本不可能伟大。

Hopefully, we can build a rivalry and we'll be able to do this a lot. Make a legacy, then retire champions.

希望我们能建立竞争关系,我们能做很多这样的事情。留下一笔遗产,然后退役冠军。

It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.

使一个人独立的,与其说是他的经济条件好,不如说是他的需要少。

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

要明白,选择自己道路的权利是一种神圣的特权。使用它。住在的可能性。

We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.

我们总是在为后代做一些事情,但我希望看到后代为我们做一些事情。

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

后代的功能是照顾自己。