My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.

  • -- Simon Newcomb 西蒙·纽科姆

我父亲是最理性、最冷静的人。

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Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.

乍一看,似乎没有什么比人类行为的外在形式更不重要的了,然而,没有什么比这更值得人们重视的了:除了生活在一个没有自己礼仪的社会里,人们对一切都习以为常了。

The security of our nation depends on the men and women who are willing to sacrifice their safety, and possibly their lives, to protect the freedoms the rest of us enjoy.

我们国家的安全取决于那些愿意牺牲自己的安全,甚至生命,来保护我们其他人享有的自由的人们。