Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.

  • -- Reinhold Niebuhr 莱茵霍尔德·尼布赫

原罪是关于人的一件事,它使人能够设想自己的完美,却不能实现它。

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We need women to go through apprentice programs. I've seen women who did, and who are now highly trained electricians and welders. These are jobs that women are capable of doing.

我们需要女性接受学徒计划。我见过这样的女性,她们现在是训练有素的电工和焊工。这些都是女性能够做的工作。

It isn't until you begin to fight in your own cause that you become really committed to winning and become a genuine ally of other people struggling for their freedom.

只有当你开始为自己的事业奋斗时,你才会真正下定决心去赢得胜利,并成为他人争取自由的真正盟友。

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

人往往能做比他们所做的更伟大的事情——他们被送到这个世界上的时候,身上带着信用的票据,却很少能充分发挥。

I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods.

我还没有自负到认为自己是一个教育者或一个能够彻底驳斥谎言的人。

Standing by and doing nothing while a sin is committed is as bad as committing the sin itself.

当一个人犯罪的时候,袖手旁观,什么也不做,这和犯罪本身一样糟糕。

Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.

爱是一种自身存在的能量。这是它自己的价值。

He who forbids not sin when he may, commands it.

在可能的时候不禁止罪恶的人,就是命令罪恶的人。

Cinema has the capacity to be so physiological.

电影具有如此生理的能力。