While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.

  • -- Henry David Thoreau 亨利·大卫·梭罗

虽然文明一直在改善我们的住房,但它并没有同样改善住在其中的人。它创造了宫殿,但创造贵族和国王并不容易。

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We must not try to force him to take civilization immediately in its complete form, but under just laws, guaranteeing to Indians equal civil laws, the Indian question, a source of such dishonor to our country and of shame to true patriots, will soon be a thing of the past.

我们不能强迫他立即把文明以完整的形式呈现出来,但是根据公正的法律,保证印第安人享有平等的民事法律,印第安人的问题,这个使我们的国家蒙羞、使真正的爱国者蒙羞的问题,将很快成为历史。

If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology.

如果人类要在目前的野蛮状态之外继续下去,就必须找到一条新的道路,一种以技术以外的其他方法为基础的新文明。

A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

领导者是帮助改善他人生活或改善他们所生活的体系的人。

Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!

抓住,那么,哦,抓住短暂的时刻;让每一刻都过得更好!