Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.

  • -- William Godwin 威廉·葛德文

使人聪明,使人自由。由此产生了公民自由;任何篡夺的权力都不能抵挡舆论的炮火。

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I have observed that baseball is not unlike a war, and when you come right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.

我观察到棒球和战争没有什么不同,当你直接面对它的时候,我们击球手就是重型火炮。

One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.

人类对自己评价如此之低的一个原因是,它从作家那里获得了如此多的智慧。

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

在我看来,最聪明的人是那些一个月至少称自己为傻瓜的人。