If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

  • -- George Washington 乔治华盛顿

如果我们想避免侮辱,我们必须能够击退它;如果我们希望确保和平,这是我们日益繁荣的最有力工具之一,我们必须知道,我们随时准备着战争。

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I think the idea is now for blacks to write about the history of our music. It's time for that, because whites have been doing it all the time. It's time for us to do it ourselves and tell it like it is.

我认为现在的想法是让黑人来书写我们音乐的历史。是时候这么做了,因为白人一直在这么做。是我们自己动手的时候了,要实事求是。

Politicians are there to try to deal with stuff, but sometimes it's both fortunate and unfortunate that people like us have more... not involvement, but more power in the stuff that we say.

政客们是来处理问题的,但有时像我们这样的人拥有更多……不是参与,而是在我们所说的事情上有更多的权力。

Other, far fewer, directors are more like the composer - conceptualizing the piece, scoring it, distributing its musical lines among a range of registers, chords, and instruments.

其他更少的导演更像作曲家——概念化作品,给它打分,把它的音乐线分布在一系列的寄存器、和弦和乐器中。

We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.

我们必须质疑这样一个故事的逻辑:拥有一个无所不知、无所不能的上帝,他创造了有缺陷的人类,然后将自己的错误归咎于他们。

Clay lies still, but blood’s a rover; Breath’s a ware that will not keep. Up, lad: when the journey’s over There’ll be time enough to sleep.

泥土静静地躺着,但血是一个流浪者;呼吸是一件保存不住的东西。起来,小伙子:当旅程结束时,你就有足够的时间睡觉了。

Another bad thing about "prosperity" is that you can't jingle any money without bein' under suspicion.

“繁荣”的另一个坏处是,你不可能在没有怀疑的情况下叮当作响地花掉任何钱。

All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label.

你所需要的只是一些乐器和一些和弦,你可以成为一个独立厂牌。

Much effort much prosperity.

多努力多繁荣。