If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.

  • -- Woodrow Wilson 伍德罗威尔逊

如果你想想你应该为别人做些什么,你的性格会照顾好自己。性格是一种副产品,任何一个人如果把自己的性格培养成这样,他就会变成一个自私的一本正经的人。

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I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn't have those things in mine.

我很高兴做我自己,这是我从未做过的。我总是隐藏在别人的内心,或者试图通过角色来发现自己,或者活出他们的生活,但是我的内心没有这些东西。

A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.

大学的本质特征是成为一个自由调查和批评的中心——这是一件不能为其他任何事情牺牲的事情。