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History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.
历史是可塑的。一堆新的日记可以提供新的线索,考古学证据可以挑战我们普遍的假设。
— Ken Burns 肯·伯恩斯
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更多好句 ↗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
Real truths, as opposed to imagined ones, are able to stand up to rigorous debate and questioning.
与想象中的事实相反,真实的事实能够经得起严格的辩论和质疑。
Jeffrey Small
杰弗里·斯莫尔
Nothing stayed, nothing ever changed. But love, only love, that was the true part of the story, no matter what the beginning, middle or end.
什么也没有留下,什么也没有改变。但爱,只有爱,才是故事的真实部分,不管故事的开头、中间还是结尾是什么。
Selena Kitt
赛琳娜·基特
You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.
你做了正确的事情,即使它让你感觉很糟糕。生活的目的不是要快乐,而是要值得快乐。
Tracy Kidder
基德尔
The value of an opinion is only measured by its user. It's ironic that the value of a fact is only measured by its observer.
意见的价值只能由它的使用者来衡量。具有讽刺意味的是,事实的价值只能由观察者来衡量。
Lionel Suggs
莱昂内尔·萨格斯
An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.
一种以语言为媒介的艺术总是会表现出高度的批判性创造性,因为语言本身就是对生活的一种批判:它通过创造来命名、描述、评判。
Thomas Mann
托马斯·曼