I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it.

  • -- Andrew Jackson 安德鲁·杰克逊

我不能同意我这必死无疑的躯体将被埋葬在一个为皇帝或国王准备的宝库中。我的共和情怀和原则禁止我这样做。

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knows it, and it has a nuclei in the center of its consciousness that is the repository of all experience and all knowledge. And when you look in the eyes of your baby and you feel this sense that they are an old soul, I believe indeed they are.

知道它,它在意识的中心有一个核心,那是所有经验和所有知识的仓库。当你看着你的孩子的眼睛,你感觉到他们是一个古老的灵魂,我相信他们确实是。

We have fallen in love with the body. That's that thing that looks back at us from the mirror. That's the repository of that lovely identity that you keep chasing all your life.

我们已经爱上了肉体。就是那个从镜子里看着我们的东西。那是你一生都在追寻的可爱身份的宝库。

Politics is its own world. It is a court and if the king's eye lights on you, you are a powerful figure. If the king's eye wanders elsewhere, you are out, whatever your title.

政治是它自己的世界。这是一个宫廷,如果国王的眼睛照在你身上,你就是一个强大的人物。如果国王的目光转移到别处,你就出局了,不管你的头衔是什么。

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

除了把事情做完的高尚艺术,还有把事情做完的高尚艺术。生活的智慧在于消除不必要的东西。

Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant.

在词典中,共和主义排在爬行动物之后,排在令人讨厌的前面。

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

老年是暴君,他在死亡的痛苦下禁止青年的欢乐。

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

如果你不能简单地解释它,你就不能很好地理解它。

You could be the King, but watch the Queen conquer.

你可以成为国王,但要看着女王征服一切。