Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.

  • -- Gertrude Stein 格特鲁德·斯坦

每个人都认为这个文明已经持续了很长时间,但它真的需要很少的祖父的孙女带我们回到黑暗时代。

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In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown.

在我们这样一个文明近现代的国家,几乎无穷无尽的物质财富财富带来了资本和劳动产业的风险,物质利益在某种程度上吸引了人们的注意力,这是很自然的,但在其他地方却不为人知。

Being a wife and a mother is very gratifying, but it's not a creative expression and that's something I need to be happy.

作为一个妻子和母亲是非常令人满意的,但这不是一个创造性的表达,这是我需要快乐的东西。

You take a crash, you get back up and next time you succeed and that's a great feeling.

你经历了一次挫折,然后重新站起来,下一次你成功了,那是一种很棒的感觉。

Friends are like stars. You do not see all the time, but you know they are there.

朋友就像星星。你并不是每时每刻都能看见,但你知道它们就在那里。

There is no such thing as being good to your wife.

没有对妻子好这种事。

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

幽默消失了,文明也就消失了。