To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows - and I needn't.

  • -- Francis Yeats-Brown 弗朗西斯·叶芝·布朗

对我来说,百科全书的魅力在于它知道——而我不需要知道。

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Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.

文学是一种人类活动,它对多样性、可能性、复杂性和艰巨性进行了最全面、最精确的描述。

Leaders are readers, disciples want to be taught and everyone has gifts within that need to be coached to excellence.

领导者是读者,门徒想要被教导,每个人都有天赋,需要被训练成卓越的人。

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.

他只学了一半的阅读艺术,而没有加上更高雅的跳绳和略读的艺术。

The issue I highlight in the book is welfare reform.

我在书中强调的问题是福利改革。