Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

  • -- Andrew Jackson 安德鲁·杰克逊

任何称职的人都会坚持他认为正确的事情,但只有稍微好一点的人才会立即毫无保留地承认自己错了。

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Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn't help us know what to say.

技术给了我们力量,但它没有也不能告诉我们如何使用这种力量。多亏了科技,我们可以在世界各地即时交流,但它仍然不能帮助我们知道该说什么。

My kitchen is not a place to live in. I made it white so I can tell instantly if it's not clean-and I like it clean enough to be able to eat off the floors-or the tables, for that matter.

我的厨房不是住的地方。我把它涂成白色,这样我就能立刻分辨出它是否干净——而且我喜欢它干净到可以在地板上或者桌子上吃东西。

I love having a man in my life, and being his woman at the end of the day. I know it's a dichotomy.

我喜欢我的生活中有一个男人,在一天结束的时候成为他的女人。我知道这是个二分法。

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

真诚并不总是真实的;相反,错误往往比真理更为严重。

A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.

幻觉是事实,而不是错误;错误的是基于它的判断。

The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that.

军衔不过是几内亚的印鉴,而这个人就是那东西的真面目。