What you always do before you make a decision is consult. The best public policy is made when you are listening to people who are going to be impacted. Then, once policy is determined, you call on them to help you sell it.

  • -- Elizabeth Dole 伊丽莎白·多尔

在做决定之前,你通常做的是咨询。最好的公共政策是当你倾听那些将要受到影响的人的意见时制定的。然后,一旦政策确定下来,你就会要求他们帮助你推销它。

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If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning.

如果我们重视独立,如果我们被我们现有体系所诱导的知识、价值观和态度的日益一致所干扰,那么我们可能希望建立学习的条件,从而形成独特性、自我指导和自主学习。

Stand-up is like a row boat: it's fun and romantic when you're choosing to do it. But if you have no other choice than to be in a row boat it's not as enjoyable; that's survival.

单口相声就像划船:当你选择去做的时候,它很有趣也很浪漫。但是,如果你别无选择,只能呆在划船里,那就没有那么愉快了;这是生存。

Sometimes its controversy, but we all have our choices that we make.

有时这是有争议的,但我们都有自己的选择。

To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.

要成为一个英雄或女英雄,必须给自己一个命令。