If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.

  • -- John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton 阿克顿

如果过去是一种障碍和负担,那么对过去的了解是最安全、最可靠的解脱。

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The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen.

妇女解放运动实际上是十九世纪最伟大的利己主义运动,也是历史上对自我权利的最强烈的肯定。

The safest thing to do was get rid of the second breast. I just want to give myself the best chance possible to live.

最安全的方法是去掉第二块乳房。我只是想给自己最好的生活机会。

Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.

自负是一切进步的不可逾越的障碍。

Nothing is an obstacle unless you say it is.

没有什么是障碍,除非你说出来。