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The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops – no, but the kind of man the country turns out.
对文明的真正考验不是人口普查，也不是城市的大小，也不是庄稼——不，而是这个国家造就了什么样的人。
— Ralph Waldo Emerson 拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生
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更多好句 ↗When Kepler found his long-cherished belief did not agree with the most precise observation, he accepted the uncomfortable fact. He preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions; that is the heart of science.
当开普勒发现他长期以来的信念与最精确的观测结果不一致时，他接受了这个令人不安的事实。他宁愿要严酷的事实，也不愿要他最宝贵的幻想;这就是科学的核心。
Carl Sagan
卡尔·萨根
The truth of God's love is not that he allows bad things to happen, it's his promise that he will be there with us--when they do.
上帝之爱的真谛不在于他允许坏事发生，而是他承诺当坏事发生时，他会与我们同在。
Janette Oke
珍妮特·欧克
The most important things are the hardest to say because words diminish them.
最重要的事情最难说，因为语言会削弱它们。
Stephen King
斯蒂芬·金
Take away health, wealth, and material success and all you have is each other. Maybe that's the place we should start.
没有健康、财富和物质上的成功，你所拥有的只有彼此。也许我们应该从这里开始。
Charles Herrick
查尔斯·赫里克
The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us.
唯一允许人类以一种真正开放的方式彼此合作的是他们愿意让自己的信念被新的事实所改变。只有对证据和论点持开放态度，我们才能建立一个共同的世界。
Sam Harris
山姆·哈里斯
Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn't help us know what to say.
技术给了我们力量，但它没有也不能告诉我们如何使用这种力量。多亏了科技，我们可以在世界各地即时交流，但它仍然不能帮助我们知道该说什么。
Jonathan Sacks
乔纳森·萨克斯