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What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power.

  • -- William S. Paley 威廉·佩利

什么是公共历史?它不过是那些参与权力争夺者的成功与失望、罪恶、愚蠢和争吵的记录。

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I can not, therefore, see how this can be imputed as a crime, or how any of the king's ministers can be blamed for his doing what the public has no concern in; for if the public be well and faithfully served it has no business to ask by whom.

因此，我看不出这怎么能算作犯罪，也看不出国王的大臣们怎么会因为做了公众毫不关心的事而受到指责;因为，如果公众得到良好和忠诚的服务，它就没有问谁的权利。

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It's easy to measure success by the number of dollars spent or by the number of programs initiated, without having too much regard for what was bought and how useful it was to the people who need it - the war fighter and the analyst.

衡量成功的标准很容易是花费了多少美元，或者启动了多少项目，而不需要过多考虑购买了什么，以及它对需要它的人——战争战士和分析师——有多大用处。

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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。

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One of the most powerful defences the media can offer for controversial actions is, of course, public interest.

当然，媒体能为有争议的行为提供的最有力的辩护之一就是公众利益。

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There is weeping when separated, there is quarreling when together.

分开时哭泣，在一起时争吵。

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No marriage contract is made without a quarrel.

没有不吵架的婚姻契约。

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