For you, the state is an entity with purposes of its own that the people can be required to serve. For us the word is only a label for the arrangements by which we the people delegate to some among us responsibility for things that concern us in common.

  • -- Elliot Lee Richardson 李理查森

对你们来说,国家是一个有自己目的的实体,人民可以被要求为之服务。对我们来说,这个词只是一个标签,用来表示我们人民把共同关心的事情的责任委托给我们中间的一些人所作的安排。

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The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness, and in human responsibility.

这个人类世界的救赎在于人类的内心,在于人类反思的力量,在于人类的温顺,在于人类的责任。

Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous.

专制随着暴君数量的增加而加剧;责任更加分散,要求赔偿的人也更多。

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

死亡与我们无关,因为只要我们存在,死亡就不在这里。当它来的时候,我们已经不存在了。

Smart people talk about ideas. Common people talk about things. Mediocre people talk about people.

聪明人谈论想法。普通人谈论事情。平庸的人谈论人。

It doesn't much concern me if Tiger plays in the tournament or no.

老虎是否参加锦标赛对我来说并不重要。

There'll be a special place in hell for the tape back-up people.

地狱里会有一个专门放磁带备份人员的地方。