For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

  • -- Benjamin Franklin 本杰明富兰克林

由于长命百岁,我经历过许多这样的事例:由于获得了更好的信息或更充分的考虑,我不得不改变自己的观点,甚至在一些重要的问题上也是如此。我曾经认为这些观点是正确的,但后来发现事实并非如此。

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It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.

其他人也没有发现,这使我很困惑。上帝走了。我们是年轻的。我们已经超过了他。为什么他们看不见?这仍然让我困惑。

Today, the technology is there to give early and normally ample warning when a powerful tornado approaches. When a tornado strikes, all of us are at risk.

今天,当强大的龙卷风来袭时,该技术可以提供早期和通常充足的预警。当龙卷风来袭时,我们所有人都处于危险之中。

Change the way you think, and you can change your world forever. Your attitude determines your altitude.

改变你的思维方式,你就能永远改变你的世界。你的态度决定你的高度。

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more  love.

我发现了一个悖论,如果你爱到受伤,就不会有更多的伤害,只有更多的爱。

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

很多时候,改变自我比改变环境更重要。

Any clod can have the facts; having opinions is an art.

任何笨蛋都可以知道事实;发表意见是一门艺术。

I felt that what is personal is political.

我觉得个人的就是政治的。

A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

大量的人等于大量的意见。