It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same effect in the same circumstances.

  • -- Thomas Reid 托马斯·里德

动机的影响是否由自然规律所决定,使它们在同样的情况下总是具有同样的效果,这是一个事实问题。

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There are some circumstances in which the First Amendment interest comes up against another interest that is really important and in which we have to make a decision in a particular case as to which is more important.

在某些情况下,第一修正案的利益与另一个真正重要的利益相冲突,在这种情况下,我们必须在特定的情况下决定哪个更重要。

Traveling out here was uncalled for. Try not to patronize us next time and tell us it's a home game. But those were the circumstances and we lost.

到这里来旅游是不必要的。下次尽量不要光顾我们,告诉我们这是一场主场比赛。但这就是当时的情况,我们输了。

I'd like to meet god. Not to question it, just to have a peak at what it is. I say 'it' because we don't know what it is.

我想见见上帝。不去质疑它,只是在它是什么的时候有一个峰值。我说“它”是因为我们不知道它是什么。

It's a difficult question of relations between people.

人与人之间的关系是一个很难回答的问题。