New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.

  • -- George Bernard Shaw 萧伯纳

新观点常常首先以玩笑和幻想的形式出现,然后以亵渎和背叛的形式出现,最后以可供讨论的问题的形式出现,最后以公认的真理的形式出现。

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I have arrived at the conviction that the neglect by economists to discuss seriously what is really the crucial problem of our time is due to a certain timidity about soiling their hands by going from purely scientific questions into value questions.

我已经确信,经济学家忽视认真讨论我们这个时代真正关键的问题,是因为他们在从纯粹的科学问题转向价值问题的过程中,存在着一定的畏惧感。

There are people, radio talk show hosts, those kind of people, it's their job to only have one opinion, they can't tell you about their feelings. They have to go with what pays their bills.

有一些人,电台脱口秀主持人,这类人,他们的工作就是只有一个观点,他们不能告诉你他们的感受。他们不得不随遇而安。

Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.

我们对失去朋友的担心并不总是来自于他们的价值感,而是来自于我们自己对他们的需要,以及我们失去了一些对我们有好感的人。

Too many people asking too many questions in tennis. Golf is better.

在网球运动中,太多的人问了太多的问题。高尔夫是更好。