Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

  • -- John Dewey 约翰·杜威

冲突是思想的牛虻。它激励我们去观察和记忆。它促进发明。它使我们摆脱了盲从的被动状态,使我们善于注意和设计。

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There are three ways of dealing with difference: domination, compromise, and integration. By domination only one side gets what it wants; by compromise neither side gets what it wants; by integration we find a way by which both sides may get what they wish.

有三种处理差异的方法:支配、妥协和融合。通过统治,只有一方得到了它想要的;通过妥协,双方都得不到自己想要的;通过整合,我们找到了一条双方都能如愿以偿的道路。

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.

与我对自己房间的了解相比,我的自知之明是多么可怜地贫乏。没有像观察外部世界那样观察内部世界的事情。

Observe always that everything is the result of a change.

时刻注意,每件事都是变化的结果。

Look, this job has always been a crucible of conflict.

听着,这份工作一直是冲突的熔炉。