Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.

  • -- Abraham Flexner 亚伯拉罕·弗莱克斯纳

也许,没有一个国家富裕到可以同时为战争和文明买单。我们必须做出选择;我们不能两者兼得。

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A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other.

一个文明的国家可以没有敌人,一个人不能在地图上画一条线,这条线甚至在自然界中都不存在,说丑陋的敌人生活在一边,好朋友生活在另一边。

The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.

两次世界大战的爆发,在一定程度上,就像许多现代文学和艺术一样,是因为人的本性是依次厌倦一切……厌倦了常识和文明。

I don't know, I'll probably make the first superhero movie that bombs.

我不知道,我可能会拍第一部爆炸的超级英雄电影。

The lack of sweat to get a win is probably a record for me.

对我来说,缺乏汗水去赢得比赛可能是一个记录。