Man is a means and not an end, and he is a means to economic or political ends which are not really ends in themselves but means to other ends which in their turn are means and so ad infinitum.

  • -- Christopher Dawson 克里斯多夫·道森

人是一种手段而不是目的,他是达到经济或政治目的的一种手段,而经济或政治目的本身并不是真正的目的,而是达到其他目的的手段,而这些目的反过来又是手段,如此无穷。

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There is nothing that I shudder at more than the idea of a separation of the Union. Should such an event ever happen, which I fervently pray God to avert, from that date I view our liberty gone.

一想到要脱离联邦,我就不寒而栗。我虔诚地祈求上帝不要发生这样的事情,如果真的发生了,从那天起,我就会看到我们的自由消失了。

I've been on the side where you have nothing, and now I'm on the side where anything I want is there for me. When I didn't have the means to do whatever I wanted to do, I still had peace.

我曾经站在你一无所有的那一边,而现在我站在任何我想要的东西都为我而存在的那一边。当我没有办法做任何我想做的事情时,我仍然感到平静。

Stories where the author has known very little, but run a computer program that tells him how to construct a planet, and looked up specific things about rocketry and so on, really suck.

有些故事作者所知甚少,但运行一个计算机程序告诉他如何建造一颗行星,并查找有关火箭等的具体信息,真的很糟糕。

Transnational, gigantic industrial companies no longer operate within political systems, but rather above them.

跨国的大型工业公司不再在政治体系内运作,而是在政治体系之上运作。

My peers say I have made a difference. That means more to me than winning an Oscar.

我的同事们说我已经做出了改变。对我来说,这比赢得奥斯卡奖更重要。

It was hard letting you go, and it's still really hard.

让你离开我真的很难,现在仍然很难。