Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.

  • -- George William Curtis 乔治·威廉姆·柯蒂斯

人类历史上的每一次重大危机都是塞莫皮莱的一个关口,如果列奥尼达和他的三百人不能征服,他们就会死在那里。

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Well what would happen is that if Greece defaulted and couldn't pay its debts, all the Greek bonds that are held in other banking systems across Western Europe would suddenly have no value. You could as a knock-on effect create a banking crisis in Western Europe.

如果希腊违约无法偿还债务,那么在西欧其他银行体系中持有的所有希腊债券就会突然失去价值。你可以作为一个连锁反应,在西欧制造一场银行业危机。

Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.

看着一大群朋友和我自己的母亲在相当短的时间内相继离世,我确信纯粹的唯物主义“解释”我们神秘的人类存在根本行不通——在智力层面上。

Crisis alone is not enough. There must also be a basis, though it need be neither rational nor ultimately correct, for faith in the particular candidate chosen.

光有危机是不够的。对特定候选人的信任也必须有一个基础,尽管这个基础既不理性,也不完全正确。

Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened with extinction, don't do anything special to avoid it.

大多数进化的血统,无论是人类还是其他物种,在面临灭绝的威胁时,都不会做任何特别的事情来避免它。