What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several.

  • -- Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld 弗朗索瓦六世,罗切福科公爵

阻止我们完全沉溺于一种恶习的原因,往往是我们有好几种恶习。

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When elected officials abandon our environment and ruin our natural resources, public health is endangered. I know the importance of providing a clean environment for our children; I have attended more than one funeral for a child who has died from an asthma attack.

当民选官员抛弃我们的环境并破坏我们的自然资源时,公共卫生就受到了威胁。我知道为我们的孩子提供一个干净的环境的重要性;我参加过不止一个孩子的葬礼,他死于哮喘发作。

Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That's not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That's not leadership. That's abandoning our middle class.

当中产阶级受到伤害时,什么也不做。这不是领导。规章制度宽松,执法不严。这不是领导。这是在抛弃我们的中产阶级。

I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.

我不想为了另一份工作而放弃一份工作,我认为我不需要牺牲任何东西来全身心投入其中任何一份工作。

The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

事实上,我经常喜欢女人。我喜欢他们的非传统。我喜欢它们的完整性。我喜欢他们的匿名性。

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye.

幸运的是,灵魂有一个解释者——通常是无意识的,但仍然是一个真实的解释者——在眼睛里。

The spiritual response is too often a simplistic one: we abandon God or we blame God for abandoning us.

属灵的回应往往过于简单:我们离弃神,或因神离弃我们而责备神。