The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.

  • -- Edmund Burke 埃德蒙伯克

所有革命中最重要的一场革命,是情感、举止和道德观念的革命。

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We should not use special budget procedures to jam through legislation to drill in the Arctic Refuge. This topic is too important to the public to address it in such a back-door manner. We should be having a full, open discussion of the issue during an energy debate.

我们不应利用特别预算程序强行通过立法在北极保护区进行钻探。这个话题对公众太重要了,不能用这种不公开的方式来讨论。我们应该在能源辩论中对这个问题进行全面、公开的讨论。

Hate is able to provoke disorders, to ruin a social organization, to cast a country into a period of bloody revolutions; but it produces nothing.

仇恨能够引起混乱,破坏一个社会组织,使一个国家陷入血腥革命的时期;但它什么也不会产生。

Girls had never been important. I'd had a girlfriend or two and had liked them a lot but it wasn't love, because my first love was tennis.

女孩从来都不重要。我有过一两个女朋友,非常喜欢她们,但那不是爱情,因为我的初恋是网球。

Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.

不要把时间浪费在革命上,这些革命不会消除你抱怨的原因,只会改变掌权者的面貌。