The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

  • -- Abraham Lincoln 亚伯拉罕·林肯

人民自己,而不是他们的仆人,可以安全地推翻他们深思熟虑的决定。

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I wish you to inform the Court that my absence, though deliberate, is not intended in any way to be disrespectful. Nor is it prompted by any fear of the punishment which might be inflicted on me.

我希望你通知法院,我的缺席虽然是有意的,但绝不是有意失礼。也不是因为害怕我可能受到的惩罚。

The climate-studies people who work with models always tend to overestimate their models. They come to believe models are real and forget they are only models.

从事气候研究的人总是倾向于高估他们的模型。他们开始相信模型是真实的,而忘记了它们只是模型。

To insult someone we call him "bestial." For deliberate cruelty and nature, "human" might be the greater insult.

侮辱一个我们叫他“野兽”的人。对于故意的残忍和自然,“人”可能是更大的侮辱。

People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault.

那些认为自己对错误很慷慨的人通常认为那是他们唯一的错误。