A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

  • -- Samuel Butler 塞缪尔巴特勒

一个人应该有足够的文化修养,能够以怀疑的眼光看待文化,而不是二手的。

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Hopefully, we can build a rivalry and we'll be able to do this a lot. Make a legacy, then retire champions.

希望我们能建立竞争关系,我们能做很多这样的事情。留下一笔遗产,然后退役冠军。

Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous.(He is also a fool.)

勇气是恐惧的补充。无所畏惧的人不会有勇气。(他也是个傻瓜。)

I was able to promote a strong defense budget when it could have been cut a lot more severely.

我能够推动一个强大的国防预算,而它本来可以被削减得更严重。

Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.

我想,每个学者未必都是有理智的人。