To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

  • -- Thomas Jefferson 托马斯·杰斐逊

强迫一个人为他所不相信和厌恶的思想的传播提供资金是罪恶和专制的。

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The main question in drama, the way I was taught, is always, 'What does the protagonist want?' That's what drama is. It comes down to that. It's not about theme, it's not about ideas, it's not about setting, but what the protagonist wants.

在戏剧中,我学到的主要问题总是,‘主角想要什么?“这就是戏剧。归根到底。这不是主题,不是想法,不是背景,而是主角想要什么。

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.

如果你有一个苹果,我有一个苹果,我们交换这些苹果,那么你和我仍然各有一个苹果。但是如果你有一个想法,我有一个想法,我们交换这些想法,那么我们每个人都会有两个想法。

Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.

人是一个微观世界,或者说一个小小的世界,因为他是从整个天空的所有恒星和行星中,从地球和元素中提炼出来的;所以他是他们的精髓。

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

制定人们不能也不愿遵守的法律,只会使所有的法律受到蔑视。