If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.

  • -- Irving Babbitt 白璧德

如果我们要有这样的纪律,我们就必须有标准,而要在现有条件下达到我们的标准,我们就必须有批评。

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We should be proud of our country when we have done something to be proud of, when we have lived up to our own standards. But the flip side of genuine pride is being able to recognize when we have fallen short, and to hold ourselves to account.

当我们做了一些值得骄傲的事情,当我们达到了自己的标准,我们应该为我们的国家感到骄傲。但真正自豪的另一面是,我们能够意识到自己什么时候做不到,并对自己负责。

They know what my standards are. They know what I need and how to get it to me, and they know how to communicate with me if for some reason they can't get it.

他们知道我的标准是什么。他们知道我需要什么,怎样才能得到,如果因为某种原因得不到,他们也知道怎样和我沟通。