I didn't want to make it a lifetime thing. I don't believe in statutory term limits, but people can limit themselves if they want to, and that's what I decided to do.

  • -- George J. Mitchell, Jr. 小乔治·J·米切尔

我不想让它成为一辈子的事情。我不相信法定期限的限制,但如果人们愿意,他们可以限制自己,这就是我决定做的。

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Reading is such a personal thing to me. I'd much rather give someone a gift certificate to a bookstore, and let that person choose his or her own books.

读书对我来说是件很私人的事。我更愿意给某人一张书店的礼券,让他/她自己选书。

For we must be one thing or the other, an asset or a liability, the sinew in your wing to help you soar, or the chain to bind you to earth.

因为我们必须是这样或那样的东西,一种资产或一种负债,是帮助你飞翔的翅膀上的腱,还是把你束缚在地球上的锁链。

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

许多一生都生活在其中的人能告诉我们的爱,比昨天失去一只狗的孩子还少。

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

每个人在他的一生中都要感谢他的错误。