There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.

  • -- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 利希滕贝格

有些人,与其说他们有天赋,不如说他们有某种才能,能够在一个世纪,甚至是十年的愿望实现之前,就预见到这些愿望。

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The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.

联合国的整个基础是所有国家- -无论大国还是小国- -都有权有分量,有权投票,有权得到注意,有权成为二十世纪的一部分。

I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.

如果你愿意,我曾经是一个成功的学生,因为我在所有能让你在学校取得成功的必要条件上都有一定的天赋。

Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit.

日复一日,我在人才库中度过漫长的下午,被告知如何走路,如何说话,如何坐着。

The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I?

那些试图让这个世界变得更糟的人没有休假。我为什么要休假呢?

People give up on each other long before they give up on themselves, and they do that, too.

人们在放弃自己之前很久就放弃了彼此,他们也这样做了。

This young century will be liberty's century.

这个年轻的世纪将是自由的世纪。