People are people the world over. Some are good, some bad, some greedy and some generous. Nations are like people and act the same way.

  • -- George Aiken 乔治·艾肯

世界各地的人都是人。有的好,有的坏,有的贪婪,有的慷慨。国与民相似,行事相同。

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We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it... The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power.

事实上,我们认为,一种尊重行为只有在与另一种相匹配的情况下才会产生效力。出于这两方面的考虑,我认为这正是我们力量的源泉。

We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.

我们决不能允许我们对死者的尊重或对生者的同情导致我们对生者的平衡采取一种不公正的行动。

It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

一个人所要求的并不是财富,而是足以维护他的尊严、不受束缚地工作、慷慨、坦率和独立。

I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.

我认为这是可怕的,人们必须被告知。不要吸烟!每个人都知道它对健康有害。但他们不得不禁止。

In tennis it's easy to get greedy - and one Grand Slam doesn't feel enough any more.

在网球运动中,人们很容易变得贪心,而一个大满贯的感觉已经不够了。

The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.

坏人并不总是受到惩罚,好人不一定纯洁。

We soon found that the white men were growing rich very fast, and were greedy.

我们很快就发现白人变得非常富有,而且贪婪。

Be just before you are generous.

慷慨之前先要公正。