This country is about, in my judgment, aggressive, open debate. There is an old saying: When everyone is thinking the same thing, no one is thinking very much.

  • -- Byron Dorgan 多根

在我看来,这个国家是一个充满侵略性、公开辩论的国家。有句老话说:当每个人都在想同样的事情时,没有人会想太多。

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When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all comment is superfluous - or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.

当一件事被说成不值得反驳时,你可以肯定它要么是极其愚蠢的(在这种情况下,所有的评论都是多余的),要么就是某种可怕的东西,问题的关键所在。

Nothing ever gets settled in this town. a seething debating society in which the debate never stops, in which people never give up, including me. And so that's the atmosphere in which you administer.

这个镇上什么都没有安顿下来。一个沸腾的辩论社,辩论永不停止,人们永不放弃,包括我在内。这就是你管理的氛围。

Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.

良心的每一个判断,无论是对的还是错的,是关于事物本身的邪恶还是道德上的冷漠,都是必须的,这样,违背良心的人总是有罪的。

It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.

我花了很长时间才没有通过别人的眼睛来评价自己。