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Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.
一旦你开始以种族为理由解释或原谅所有事件，你就开始沉迷于种族的危险神话。
— James Earl Jones 詹姆斯·厄尔·琼斯
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更多好句 ↗Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.
我们必须谦虚地承认，发明并不在于从虚无中创造，而在于从混沌中创造。
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
玛丽·葛德文
Half the wrong conclusions at which mankind arrive are reached by the abuse of metaphors, and by mistaking general resemblance or imaginary similarity for real identity.
人类所得出的错误结论，有一半是由于滥用比喻，把普遍的相似或想象的相似误当成真实的同一性而得出的。
Henry John Temple
英夷首辅庙亨约
The well-meaning contention that all ideas have equal merit seems to me little different from the disastrous contention that no ideas have any merit.
在我看来，所有想法都有同等的价值这一善意的论点与没有任何想法有任何价值这一灾难性的论点几乎没有什么不同。
Carl Sagan
卡尔·萨根
Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learnt to walk.
人生是座迷宫，我们在学会走路之前就走错了方向。
Cyril Connolly
西里尔·康诺利
The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.
智慧的极限，就是大众所谓的疯狂。
Jean Cocteau
让·科克图
No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
对任何青年来说，最大的伤害莫过于让他感到，因为他属于这个或那个种族，无论他自己的功绩或努力如何，他都会在生活中获得进步。
Booker T. Washington
布克·华盛顿