As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence.

  • -- Alex Campbell 亚历克斯·坎贝尔

因此,进步仅仅意味着更大的权力、更多的利润、更高的生产率、更多的纸张繁荣,所有这些都可以转化为只与大小或规模有关的标准,而不是质量或卓越性。

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But nobody predicted anything of this magnitude in terms of resistance. And in part, the magnitude of the resistance was spurred by our failures in reconstruction.

但是没有人预测到如此巨大的阻力。在某种程度上,我们在重建方面的失败激发了抵抗的规模。

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

逆境有时对人是艰难的;但对于一个能忍受顺境的人来说,有一百个人能忍受逆境。

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

只有当有钱的阶层认为他们能从中获利时,才会发生对外国的战争。

Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.

让我们不要害怕说出一个常识:没有良好的纪律,你就不可能有高标准。

I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.

我受过苦难的教育,知道许多洁净的仪式,也知道什么时候该说话,什么时候该沉默。

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

当一个人有高飞的冲动时,他决不会同意匍匐前进。

If you don't meet the standards, then you don't qualify.

如果你不符合标准,那么你就没有资格。

Excellence prospers in the absence of excuses.

优秀源于没有借口。

Don't neglect the consequence of your act.

不要忽视你行为的后果。