Politics has always been the art of the possible. Today it's too often the art of the probable -- tinkering around the edges without any greater vision, without a sense of optimism and imagination.

  • -- John Kerry 克里

政治一直是可能性的艺术。如今,这往往是一种可能性的艺术——在没有更大远见、没有乐观和想象力的情况下,在边缘修修补补。

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There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.

想象力只有一种令人钦佩的形式:想象力是如此强烈,以至于它创造了一个新的现实,让事情发生。

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

悲观主义者从每一个机会中看到困难;乐观的人在每个困难中都能看到机会。

Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.

理性尊重事物的差异,想象尊重事物的相似之处。

All things were once impossible.

所有的事情都曾经是不可能的。