It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

  • -- Margaret Mead 玛格丽特·米德

暂时接受较小的恶也许是必要的,但永远不要把必要的恶贴上善的标签。

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When people come to you for help, do not turn them off with pious words, saying, "Have faith and take your troubles to God." Act instead as though there were no God, as though there were only one person in the world who could help -- only yourself.

当人们向你寻求帮助时,不要用虔诚的话语来拒绝他们,说:“要有信心,把你的烦恼带到上帝那里去。”相反,要像没有上帝一样行动,就像世界上只有一个人能帮助你——只有你自己。

Keep it simple in the kitchen. If you use quality ingredients, you don't need anything fancy to make food delicious: just a knife, a cutting board, and some good nonstick cookware, and you're set.

在厨房里保持简单。如果你使用高质量的食材,你不需要任何花哨的东西来做出美味的食物:一把刀,一个砧板,一些好的不粘锅,你就做好了。

greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.

最大的伪装不是为了隐藏我们内心的邪恶和丑陋,而是我们的空虚。最难隐藏的是那些不存在的东西。

I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts.

我从研究生院毕业时经历了退学。这是你学到的,你想的。这才是最重要的。

We know that segregation is evil. We know that the sickest children should not go to the worst hospitals.

我们知道种族隔离是邪恶的。我们知道,病情最严重的孩子不应该去最糟糕的医院。

The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.

任何伟大的道德事业的成功都不取决于人数。