There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.

  • -- Ida M. Tarbell 塔贝尔

如果一个人认为一个人所做的一切都应该是正确和可靠的,即使是确定一个关税税率也必须是合乎道德的,那么他拒绝接受这一观点,认为这是一个处于权力地位的人所面临的最大危险。

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I continue to meet people who have had their Web pages hijacked, their browsers corrupted, in some cases, their children exposed to inappropriate material from these dangerous programs hidden in their family computers.

我不断遇到这样的人,他们的网页被劫持,他们的浏览器被破坏,在某些情况下,他们的孩子暴露在这些隐藏在他们家庭电脑中的危险程序的不合适的材料中。

A lot of life is dealing with your curse, dealing with the cards you were given that aren't so nice. Does it make you into a monster, or can you temper it in some way, or accept it and go in some other direction?

生活的大部分时间都在处理你的诅咒,处理你收到的不太好的牌。它会让你变成一个怪物吗?或者你能以某种方式缓和它,或者接受它并向另一个方向发展吗?

Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

每一个战胜诱惑的人都代表着一种新的道德能量。在正确的精神中经受和经受的每一次考验都会使一个灵魂比以前更高尚、更坚强。

You've got to keep your finger on the pulse of what your audience is thinking, and know what they'll accept from you.

你必须把握住你的听众在想什么,并知道他们会从你这里接受什么。

Nothing is more dangerous than an enemy with nothing to loose.

没有什么比没有东西可放的敌人更危险的了。

Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.

文学必须充当政治的道德控制。