The very special place that a language occupies among institutions is undeniable, but there is much more to be said-, a comparison would tend rather to bring out the differences.

  • -- Ferdinand de Saussure 索绪尔

一种语言在机构中所占的特殊地位是不可否认的,但还有很多话要说——比较往往会揭示出不同之处。

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We go on and on about our differences. But, you know, our differences are less important than our similarities. People have a lot in common with one another, whether they see that or not.

我们不停地谈论我们之间的分歧。但是,你知道,我们的不同之处没有我们的相似之处重要。人们彼此之间有很多共同之处,不管他们看到与否。

Wars are not acts of God. They are caused by man, by man-made institutions, by the way in which man has organized his society. What man has made, man can change.

战争不是上帝的行为。它们是由人类造成的,由人为的制度,由人类组织社会的方式造成的。人创造了什么,就能改变什么。

The EU should be concentrated on adapting to globalisation and global competitiveness, not building more powerful centralised institutions in Brussels.

欧盟应该专注于适应全球化和全球竞争力,而不是在布鲁塞尔建立更强大的中央机构。

Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.

理性尊重事物的差异,想象尊重事物的相似之处。