When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition, he becomes ridiculous in many circumstances of life, and very often discredits his best actions

  • -- Joseph Addison 约瑟夫·艾迪生

当一个人完全由鸽子组成,而没有一点蛇的成分时,他在生活中的许多情况下就会变得可笑,并常常使他最好的行为蒙羞

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We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

就我们的政治利益而言,我们比世界上任何其他民族都更彻底地是一个开明的民族。我们当中的每一个人都读书,在他所处的环境中,读书是如此的容易,以致于有空闲的时间来讨论进步和获取信息。

One must put things in perspective - I've been given a circumstance with very little time to catch form and try and get an Olympic quota for the country.

人们必须正确看待事情——我被赋予了一种环境,没有多少时间来恢复状态,并努力为这个国家争取奥运配额。

Reasonable men adapt to the world around them; unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men.

理性的人适应周围的世界;不讲理的人使世界适应他们。不讲道理的人改变了世界。

But men are men; the best sometimes forget.

但人毕竟是人;最好的有时候会忘记。