Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

  • -- Thomas Jefferson 托马斯·杰斐逊

依赖带来顺从和腐败,扼杀美德的萌芽,为野心的设计准备合适的工具。

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And I am a conservative. Sometimes conservatives forget we are supposed to conserve, to save, to be efficient. Plus our dependence on other sources of energy is causing our country to not be independent and to really be vulnerable. So this is a security issue.

我是一个保守主义者。有时候,保守派忘记了我们应该节约,节约,高效。此外,我们对其他能源的依赖正使我们的国家变得不独立,变得非常脆弱。所以这是一个安全问题。

People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want.

人们可能会说,也可能不会说……但他们总是说一些旨在得到他们想要的东西。

The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them.

一个好女人的道路上确实撒满了鲜花;但他们是站在她的身后,而不是前面。

If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips.

如果科学家不依赖真实的证据,那他们也不过是在说闲话。

So I went for engineering, specifically product design, which I enjoyed.

所以我选择了工程学,尤其是产品设计,我很喜欢。

In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.

在罪恶中我们是美德,反之亦然。