The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

  • -- Ralph Waldo Emerson 拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生

人类的终结将是文明的终结。

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I'm always nervous taking on a period role because it's difficult to research - you can't observe it, go out and see it. But it's satisfying because eventually you think, 'I got there.'

我总是对扮演一个经期角色感到紧张,因为这很难研究——你不能观察它,不能走出去看它。但这是令人满意的,因为最终你会想,‘我做到了’。

Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.

每个人都认为这个文明已经持续了很长时间,但它真的需要很少的祖父的孙女带我们回到黑暗时代。

The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

进步的残酷被称为革命。当它们结束时,我们意识到:人类受到了粗暴的对待,但它已经进步了。

He realized that he was the first human being she'd ever seen. He was touched in a way that he hadn't imagined he could be.

他意识到他是她见过的第一个人。他被触动的程度是他想象不到的。

The greatest obstacle to human liberty is that the vast majority of people do not wish to be free.

人类自由的最大障碍是绝大多数人不希望自由。

As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure.

只要艺术是文明的美容院,艺术和文明都不是安全的。

If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.

如果一个想法确实是明智的,它最终将成为被接受的智慧的一部分。

More than the time, it's about how you feel - you want to be strong throughout the race.

不仅仅是时间,而是你的感觉——你想在比赛中保持强壮。