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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If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily... and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.

如果我没有阅读障碍,我可能就不会赢得比赛。如果我是一个更好的读者,那么这一切都会来得很容易,体育运动也会来得很容易……我从来没有意识到,你在生活中获得成功的道路是艰辛的。

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.

虽然文明一直在改善我们的住房,但它并没有同样改善住在其中的人。它创造了宫殿,但创造贵族和国王并不容易。

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

对文明来说,最好的保障是住所,而人类的进步,最重要的是取决于适当的布置和成为住所。