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The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands.
如果太阳、月亮和星星恰好在人类掠夺者的手中，它们早就消失了。
— Havelock Ellis 霭理士
同一主题，不同的表达
更多好句 ↗We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to existence. At best we are creatures of reason, and by using reason we can cure ourselves of emotional excess. Purged of both hope and fear, we find courage in the face of helplessness, insignificance and uncertainty.
我们是生物。我们出生，我们生活，我们死亡。存在没有超越的目的。我们至多是理性的产物，通过理性，我们可以治愈自己的情感过剩。清除了希望和恐惧，我们在无助、渺小和不确定中找到了勇气。
Jonathan Sacks
乔纳森·萨克斯
Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.
大自然在我们的头脑中植入了一种永不满足的求知欲望。
Marcus Tullius Cicero
西塞罗
Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.
也许旅行不能阻止偏见，但通过展示所有人的哭泣、欢笑、吃饭、担忧和死亡，它可以引入这样一种观念:如果我们试着去理解彼此，我们甚至可能成为朋友。
Maya Angelou
玛雅·安杰洛
The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.
科学的目的不是证明一个理论，而是改善人类。
Manly Hall
曼理·霍尔
We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.
我们想象自己想要逃离自私和平庸的生活，但我们却拼命地抓住枷锁不放。
Anne Sullivan
安妮·沙利文
It would be sad if we lost our instinct and our courage to love and protect.
如果我们失去了爱和保护的本能和勇气，那将是可悲的。
Emeli Sandé
艾米莉·桑德