If you deny that any principles of conduct at all are common to and admitted by all men who try to behave reasonably - well, I don't see how you can have any ethics or any ethical background for law.

  • -- Frederick Pollock 波洛克

如果你否认任何行为准则都是所有试图理性行事的人所共有的,并得到他们的承认,那么,我看不出你怎么会有任何道德或法律方面的道德背景。

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I don't make a habit of watching tennis matches, but I try to watch all the major finals. I try to make time for that. So unless I have something going with the kids where I can't, I try to watch, and I enjoy that.

我没有看网球比赛的习惯,但我会试着看所有的决赛。我尽量挤出时间。所以除非我和孩子们有什么我不能做的事情,否则我会试着去看,而且我很享受。

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

虽然竞争法则有时对个人来说很难,但对种族来说却是最好的,因为它确保了适者生存。

I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.

我是穷人。当你贫穷的时候,你工作;当你富有的时候,你期待有人把工作交给你。所以我认为合理的贫穷对人们是有好处的。

It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it.

找到足够聪明的人去发现真理,要比找到足够勇敢的人去面对反对,去捍卫真理容易得多。

Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the gotta have it scale.

钱不是生活中最重要的东西,但它与氧气相当接近。

The law will argue any thing, with any body who will pay the law for the use of its brains and its time.

法律会为任何事情与任何愿意为其智慧和时间的使用付费的人争论。

Although Dorothy in Blue Velvet was humiliated and hurt by men, basically I could react to how she felt.

虽然穿蓝丝绒衣服的桃乐茜被男人羞辱和伤害,但基本上我能对她的感受做出反应。

It is better to not even try it than to endure the ramifications of either quitting smoking or dying.

与其忍受戒烟或死亡带来的后果,甚至不去尝试一下都好。