The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.

  • -- Thomas Sowell 托马斯·索厄尔

最基本的问题不是什么是最好的,而是由谁来决定什么是最好的。

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The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence.

决定我们命运的问题不是我们是否要向太空扩张。它是:我们是一个物种还是一百万?一百万个物种不会耗尽等待智能到来的生态位。

I shall take all the troubles of the past, all the disappointments, all the headaches, and I shall pack them in a bag and throw them in the East River.

我要把过去所有的烦恼,所有的失望,所有的头痛都装进一个袋子里,扔到东河去。

I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college.

直到大学毕业,我才真正下定决心要成为一名宇航员。

I shall be but a shrimp of an author.

我将只是一个作家的虾。