Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.

  • -- Calvin Coolidge 卡尔文·柯立芝

人们谈到自然权利,但我要求任何人指出,在为他们的宣言和保护建立一个适当颁布的相应法律机构之前,在自然界中是否存在或承认任何权利。

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I argue that we deserve the choice to do whatever we want with our faces and bodies without being punished by an ideology that is using attitudes, economic pressure, and even legal judgments regarding women's appearance to undermine us psychologically and politically.

我认为,我们有权选择对自己的脸和身体做任何我们想做的事情,而不会受到一种意识形态的惩罚,这种意识形态利用态度、经济压力,甚至对女性外貌的法律判断,在心理和政治上破坏我们。

If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.

如果所有人类都消失了,世界将重新恢复一万年前存在的丰富的平衡状态。如果昆虫消失了,环境就会陷入混乱。

Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.

让每个人都认为自己是上帝的行为,他的思想是上帝的思想,他的生命是上帝的气息;各人要凭大能的意念和大能的行为,试验自己在天上的作为。

You're in the right place at the right time, and you care enough to do what needs to be done. Sometimes that's enough.

你在正确的时间出现在正确的地点,你足够关心去做需要做的事情。有时这就够了。