If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world.

  • -- Gene Tunney 滕尼

如果所有人的生命都依赖于它们的用处- -这可以用某些标准来判断- -世界上就会突然出现可怕的死亡。

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And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.

在人类理性所能给予的一切启示中,没有任何一种能与发现我们是什么、我们的本性、我们的义务、我们能够获得什么幸福以及获得幸福的手段相比。

The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what we do? How much is luck the deciding factor?

历史的吸引力在于我们的人性。是什么让我们这么做?我们为什么要这么做?运气在多大程度上是决定因素?

Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some of the smaller countries are neutral.

有时候我觉得整个世界都在反对我,但在内心深处我知道那不是真的。一些较小的国家持中立态度。

There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.

没有劳动就没有卓越。一个人不能梦想自己变得有用或幸福。

Besides, my usefulness here is destroyed because all of my friends think me a man of unsound mind.

此外,我在这里的用处被毁了,因为我所有的朋友都认为我是一个精神不健全的人。

The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.

那些被世界称为不道德的书,是那些让世界感到羞耻的书。