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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In the end, they pardoned me and packed me off to a home for the shell-shocked. Shortly before the end of the war, I was discharged a second time, once again with the observation that I was subject to recall at any time.

最后,他们原谅了我,把我送到了一个患有炮弹休克症的家庭。就在战争结束前不久,我第二次被释放了,再次被释放的原因是我随时都可能回忆起当时的观察结果。

There's not one person in this crowd who's gonna agree with everything I say. Not one.

这群人中没有一个人会同意我说的每件事。没有一个。

But I make the observation that no one of us would do things exactly alike.

但我观察到我们没有人会做完全一样的事情。

No matter who comes off well, the peacemaker is sure to come off ill.

不管谁表现得好,和平缔造者一定会表现得不好。