War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.

  • -- Thomas Paine 托马斯·潘恩

在战争的发展过程中,出现了一系列不可预见的情况,人类的智慧无法估计其结局;只有一件事是肯定的,那就是增税。

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Many of the technologies that are now racing ahead most rapidly, replacing human workers in factories and offices with machines, making stockholders richer and workers poorer, are indeed tending to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth.

许多技术正在以最快的速度向前发展,用机器取代工厂和办公室里的工人,让股东变得更富有,让工人变得更贫穷,这些技术确实倾向于加剧财富分配方面现有的不平等。

The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.

关于黑人历史,真相比你能编造的任何东西都要复杂得多。

No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.

没有人能走得远,除非他每天至少完成一次不可能的事。

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

战争的唯一借口是我们可以安然无恙地生活在和平之中。

I've been held responsible for taxes I know nothing about.

我要为我所不知道的税负责。

Not all human souls but only the pious ones are divine.

不是所有的人的灵魂都是神圣的,只有虔诚的人才是神圣的。

I get why certain actors want to stay in the closet.

我明白为什么某些演员想要待在柜子里。

In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.

在某种意义上,善是不舒服的。

War is about dead people.

战争是关于死人的。

I am for lowering taxes.

我赞成减税。