Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

-- Thomas Sowell 托马斯·索厄尔

事实不能说明一切。他们支持或反对相互竞争的理论。脱离理论或幻想的事实只是孤立的奇闻异事。

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I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.

我认识一对夫妻，不管法院给出的离婚的官方理由是什么，他们真的离婚了，因为丈夫认为没有人应该在他说话的时候读书，而妻子认为没有人应该在她读书的时候说话。

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The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man.

对机械一无所知的哲学家倾向于把人仅仅看作一种机械，并以此暗示人是没有目的的。这表明我们对机器和人类都缺乏了解。

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My parents separated when I was younger.

我很小的时候父母就分居了。

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