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If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own.
如果有人在人们面前提出一个建议，让他们在检查后选择世界上最好的风俗习惯，每个国家肯定会选择自己的风俗习惯。
— Herodotus 希罗多德
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更多好句 ↗When we violate the law ourselves, whatever short-term advantage may be gained, we are obviously encouraging others to violate the law; we thus encourage disorder and instability and thereby do incalculable damage to our own long-term interests.
当我们自己违法时，无论短期利益如何，我们明显是在鼓励他人违法;因此，我们鼓励混乱和不稳定，从而对我们自己的长期利益造成无法估量的损害。
James William Fulbright
富布赖特
Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
文明是一种生活方式，是对所有人平等尊重的态度。
Jane Addams
珍妮·亚当斯
Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.
人是为社会而生的，既不能独自生活，也没有勇气这样做。
William Blackstone
威廉·布莱克斯通
Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins.
只有当学校减少了孩子的机会对社会出身的依赖时，学校才会成功。
James Samuel Coleman
詹姆斯·塞缪尔·科尔曼
Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done.
学校的目的不是教化一个邪恶的世界，而是传授知识和发展智力，只有两个社会目标:做好准备，在世界的工作中承担自己的一份，或许还有，在完成学业后，帮助改善社会。
Jacques Martin Barzun
雅克·马丁·巴赞
We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
我们不是一个熔炉，而是一幅美丽的马赛克。不同的人，不同的信仰，不同的渴望，不同的希望，不同的梦想。
Jimmy Carter
吉米·卡特