Civilization is the process in which one gradually increases the number of people included in the term 'we' or 'us' and at the same time decreases those labeled 'you' or 'them' until that category has no one left in it.

  • -- Howard Winters 霍华德·温特斯

文明是一个过程,在这个过程中,一个人逐渐增加“我们”或“我们”这个词所包含的人数,同时减少那些被贴上“你”或“他们”标签的人,直到这个类别中没有剩下一个人。

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As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

诗歌不是一种职业,而是一种徒劳无益的游戏。没有一个诚实的诗人能对他所写的东西的永久价值有十足的把握:他可能白白浪费了时间,把生活搞得一团糟。

It's not that I find it hard to meet girls - they do come up and chat me up from time to time. Sometimes I'm interested, I tend not to go for the prettier ones. I prefer the quirkier types.

我并不是觉得很难遇到女孩子——她们偶尔会过来和我聊天。有时候我很感兴趣,我不喜欢漂亮的。我更喜欢古怪的类型。

Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark.

城市一直是文明的壁炉,那里的光和热辐射到黑暗中。

A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal.

文明之间的对话可以看作是个人与世界之间的对话。

Create inclusion with simple mindfulness that others might have a different reality from your own.

用简单的正念创造包容,让别人拥有与你不同的现实。

To say "we" and mean "I" is one of the most recondite insults.

说“我们”和“我”是最深奥的侮辱之一。