Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.

  • -- Thomas Merton 托马斯·默顿

骄傲使我们做作,谦逊使我们真实。

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In a situation where many national leaders do the same thing and look out for national interests, and with an issue like global warming, you're likely to get no solution, so I think you have to have some kind of ethical trump on some of those issues.

在很多国家领导人都在做同样的事情,为国家利益着想的情况下,在全球变暖这样的问题上,你很可能得不到解决方案,所以我认为你必须在这些问题上有某种道德上的特朗普。

I have been an "Official" all my life, without the least turn for it. I never could attain a true official manner, which is highly artificial and handles trifles with ludicrously disproportionate gravity.

我一生都是一个“官员”,没有一点机会。我从来没有获得过一种真正的官方态度,这种态度是高度人为的,处理小事的时候严肃得可笑。

Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.

谦卑是一种优雅,它在高尚的环境中闪耀光芒,但在卑微的环境中却无法同样闪耀光芒,因为一个人在卑微的环境中可能已经过于谦卑了。

If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure, and these are related to skills in the real world.

如果你看音乐,你会看到主题,变化,对称,不对称,结构,这些都与现实世界中的技巧有关。

It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility.

我们重新回到大地上来,在瞻仰大地的美时,认识到它的神奇和谦卑,这是有益的,也是必要的。

The real fight is about what should be in the marketplace and what should not. Should education be a marketable commodity? Should healthcare?

真正的斗争是关于什么应该在市场上,什么不应该。教育应该是一种适销对路的商品吗?该医疗?

Our pride keeps us from breaking our pride. Our pride tells us we don't have pride issues.

我们的骄傲阻止我们打破我们的骄傲。我们的骄傲告诉我们,我们没有骄傲的问题。

Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.

一旦我们习惯了,真理很快就不再比小说更离奇了。

Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.

男人和女孩,男人和女孩:人造猪和珍珠。

Deception sneaks in through the window of pride.

欺骗从骄傲的窗口溜进来。