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The average condition of the people improving or deteriorating, depends upon whether population is advancing faster than improvement, or improvement than population.
人的平均状况是在改善还是在恶化,这取决于是人口增长快于人口增长,还是人口增长快于人口增长。
— John Stuart Mill 约翰·斯图尔特·密尔
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更多好句 ↗The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
爱护地球是我们最古老、最有价值、毕竟也是我们最愉快的责任。珍惜它所剩下的一切并促进它的复兴是我们唯一的希望。
Wendell Berry
温德尔·贝里
As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.
作为人类,我们需要知道我们并不孤单,我们没有发疯或完全失去理智,还有其他人和我们有同样的感受,和我们一样生活,和我们一样爱,和我们一样。
Billy Joel
比利·乔尔
Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
爱是人类至高无上的恩典,是灵魂最神圣的权利,是将我们与责任和真理联系在一起的黄金纽带,是使心灵与生活协调一致、预示永恒美好的救赎原则。
Francesco Petrarca
彼特拉克
Women are half the population and they know how to take care of themselves, if they are only given access to health care.
妇女占人口的一半,她们知道如何照顾自己,只要她们能得到保健。
Cynthia Nixon
辛西娅·尼克松
Humanity's greatest achievement will come when the happiness of some will no longer be the sadness of others.
当一些人的快乐不再是另一些人的悲伤时,人类最大的成就就会到来。
Mario Stinger
马里奥毒刺
If you want to know what's important to a culture, learn their language.
如果你想知道什么对一种文化来说是重要的,那就学习他们的语言。
Joanne Harris
乔安·哈瑞斯