If you have built castles in the air your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.

  • -- Henry David Thoreau 亨利·大卫·梭罗

如果你已经建造了空中楼阁,你的工作就不会白费;这是他们应该在的地方。现在把地基放在下面。

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My foundations support people in the country who care about an open society. It's their work that I'm supporting. So it's not me doing it. But I can empower them. I can support them, and I can help them.

我的基金会支持这个国家关心开放社会的人们。我支持的是他们的工作。所以不是我干的。但我可以赋予他们权力。我可以支持他们,也可以帮助他们。

I think it's really terrifying that a country based on the foundations and ideals of God, is now systematically removing God from everything. Everything!

我认为,一个建立在上帝的基础和理想之上的国家,现在正在系统性地把上帝从一切事物中移除,这真的很可怕。一切!

I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.

我渴望和你在一起,在海边,我们可以自由地交谈,在空中建造我们的城堡。

Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?

我们为什么要带着愤世嫉俗的愁眉苦脸,去努力摧毁他们的童话城堡呢?