When a society abandons its ideals just because most people can't live up to them, behavior gets very ugly indeed.

  • -- Judith Martin 朱迪思·马丁

当一个社会仅仅因为大多数人无法实现自己的理想而放弃自己的理想时,行为确实会变得非常丑陋。

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The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable.

科学的本质是,它总是愿意为了一个更好的想法而放弃一个既定的想法;神学的本质在于它认为自己的真理是永恒不变的。

I'd get invited to parties, and instead it would be these abandoned houses.

我会被邀请去参加派对,但取而代之的是这些废弃的房子。