We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of further inertia and the irksomeness of action.

  • -- Learned Hand 学过的手

我们接受过去的裁决,直到改变的需要大声疾呼,迫使我们在进一步的惰性和令人厌烦的行动之间作出选择。

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Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones.

为了人类的福利和进步,预防坏的行为比做好事取得的成就要大得多。

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

做事要深思熟虑,但是时机一到,就要动手,不要犹豫。