Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

  • -- Thomas Carlyle 托马斯·卡莱尔

沉默如永恒之深,言语如时间之浅。

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A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.

一个国际社会只有通过世界通讯才能存在,这意味着不仅仅是遍布全球的广泛的短波设施。它意味着共同的理解、共同的传统、共同的思想和共同的理想。

We had some problems - my children were kidnapped during that time, and it just changed my whole way of thinking, from being in show business and everything else.

我们有一些问题——我的孩子们在那段时间被绑架了,这改变了我的整个思维方式,从演艺圈和其他一切。

The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.

一想到要把我的记忆带入永恒,我就崩溃了,于是我投靠了无神论。

Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.

制定政策时,永远不要忘记子孙后代。演讲时不要想着后代。

Even in these times, there are still neighbors that will turn their backs on neighbors.

即使在这个时候,仍然有一些邻居会背弃他们。

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

正如我们必须解释每一个无聊的话一样,我们也必须解释每一个无聊的沉默。

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

从我腐烂的身体里,花朵会生长,而我就在其中,那就是永恒。

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

但是如果思想腐化了语言,语言也能腐化思想。