Words are how people think. When you misuse words, you diminish your ability to think clearly and truthfully.

  • -- Margaret Heffernan 玛格丽特·赫弗南

语言是人们思考的方式。当你误用词语时,你就会降低清晰而真实地思考的能力。

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Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.

宏伟与美丽是如此的对立,以至于你常常在增加美与减少美的同时,也在减少美。多样性与后者最为相似,简单性与前者最为相似。

I've said very clearly, including in a State of the Union address, that I'm against 'don't ask, don't tell' and that we're going to end this policy.

我已经非常明确地说过,包括在国情咨文中,我反对“不问不说”,我们将结束这一政策。

Let me say this as clearly as I can: No matter how sharp a grievance or how deep a hurt, there is no justification for killing innocents.

让我尽可能清楚地说:无论多么强烈的不满或多么严重的伤害,都没有理由杀害无辜。

If you ask god to help you, it means you trust his ability, if he doesn't help you yet, it means he trusts yours.

如果你请求上帝帮助你,这意味着你相信他的能力,如果他还没有帮助你,这意味着他相信你的能力。

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.

天才是在日常生活中更新情感的能力。

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

描述幸福就是减少幸福。