Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.

  • -- Elihu Root 伊莱休·鲁特

人类的本性必须比现在或未来许多代人更接近完美,才能排除这种控制偏见、自私、野心和不公。

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It's amazing how fast generations lose sight of other generations. One of the first things the young composers who come to work with me say is that they want to write music people will like, instead of gaining their credentials by being rejected by the audience.

令人惊讶的是,几代人很快就忽略了其他几代人。和我一起工作的年轻作曲家们说的第一件事就是他们想创作人们喜欢的音乐,而不是通过被观众拒绝来获得他们的证书。

It's a wonderful feeling to be a bridge to the past and to unite generations. The sport of baseball does that, and I am just a part of it.

能成为一座通向过去、团结几代人的桥梁是一种美妙的感觉。棒球运动就是这样,而我只是其中的一部分。

What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

所谓对人性的敏锐认识,基本上只是观察者自身的弱点在他人身上的反映。

If you're rude for television's sake, it ain't reality TV.

如果你因为看电视而粗鲁,那不是真人秀。