I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

  • -- Thomas Carlyle 托马斯·卡莱尔

我越来越尊重事实,越来越不尊重理论。在我看来,事实是一件伟大的事情;一个句子,如果不是上帝印的,那么至少是魔鬼印的。

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I am amused by cricket because it seems to take longer than baseball and I like that. It seems like a sport I could have made up it - it takes several days to play and everyone wears sweaters. I can't confess to knowing what's going on at all.

我对板球很感兴趣,因为它似乎比棒球耗时更长,我喜欢这样。这似乎是一项我可以编出来的运动——它需要几天的时间来玩,而且每个人都穿毛衣。我不能承认我完全知道发生了什么事。

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

那些忘记善与恶,只想知道事实的人比那些通过扭曲自己欲望的媒介来看待世界的人更有可能获得善。

The economy in the Valley will need to grow if students want to come back and work with their specialized degrees. We need to develop more to create more opportunities.

如果学生们想回来拿着专业学位工作,硅谷的经济就需要增长。我们需要发展更多,创造更多的机会。

Of course, there will be few people who are sympathetic but you don't become a great team overnight, no matter how much money you have at your disposal.

当然,很少有人会同情你,但你不会在一夜之间成为一个伟大的团队,不管你有多少钱可以支配。

Above and beyond the question of how to grow the economy there is a legitimate concern about how to grow the quality of our lives.

除了如何发展经济的问题之外,人们还有一个合理的担忧,那就是如何提高我们的生活质量。

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

如果你能看到时间的种子,并说出哪些谷物会生长,哪些不会,那就对我说。

If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right; if you don't get all the facts, it can't be right

如果你掌握了所有的事实,你的判断可能是正确的;如果你不了解所有的事实,那就不可能是正确的

I called the album 'The Chemo' because it seems like the industry and music overall is dying slowly.

我将这张专辑命名为“化疗”,因为音乐产业和音乐整体上似乎正在慢慢消亡。

Beethoven had a great look. It was very much about the drama of appearance.

贝多芬长得很帅。这主要是关于外表的戏剧性。

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.

没有人能以权宜为理由作恶。

The post of honour is the post of danger.

荣誉的岗位就是危险的岗位。