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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

  • -- Martin Luther King Jr 马丁·路德·金

衡量一个人的最终标准不是他在舒适和方便的时刻所处的位置，而是他在挑战和争议的时刻所处的位置。

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There are no prescriptive solutions, no grand designs for grand problems. Life's solutions lie in the minute particulars involving more and more individual people daring to create their own life and art, daring to listen to the voice within their deepest, original nature, and deeper still, the voice within the earth.

没有规定的解决方案，没有针对重大问题的宏大设计。生活的解决之道就在于那些涉及到越来越多敢于创造自己的生活和艺术的个人的细小细节，敢于倾听他们内心最深处、最原始的、甚至更深层次的声音——地球内部的声音。

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There was endless controversy as to whether the acts of the New Deal did actually move recovery or retard it, and nothing final could ever come of that bitter debate because it is forever impossible to prove what might have happened in place of what did.

关于新政的行为究竟是推动了经济复苏，还是阻碍了经济复苏，一直存在着无休止的争议，而这场激烈的辩论永远不会有任何结果，因为永远不可能证明本来会发生什么，而不是发生了什么。

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I read every screenplay that was being sent to the other directors. None were being sent to me, but I was reading what others were choosing and what the best writers were writing.

我读了所有寄给其他导演的剧本。没有一个是寄给我的，但我读的是其他人的选择和最好的作家的作品。

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All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice.

骄傲常常伴随着力量，我们决不能认为正义是站在强者一边的。使用权力必须始终伴随着道德选择。

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A man shares his days with hunger, thirst, and cold, with the good times and the bad, and the first part of being a man is to understand that.

一个人与饥饿、干渴、寒冷分享他的日子，与欢乐和悲伤分享他的日子，而作为一个人的第一部分就是要明白这一点。

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I can't afford security. I can't afford a gated house. So, I feel a little vulnerable. I wish some laws would come into play.

我负担不起安全。我买不起带大门的房子。所以，我觉得有点脆弱。我希望能出台一些法律。

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One of the things my parents taught me, and I'll always be grateful for the gift, is to not ever let anybody else define me.

我父母教给我的一件事是，永远不要让别人定义我，我也会永远感激这份礼物。

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That each man is the sum of his choices is nothing less than the truth. And each, perhaps, is also something else.

每个人都是他选择的总和，这是真理。也许，每一种都是另一种东西。

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People wish to be settled: only as far as they are unsettled is there any hocpe for them.

人们希望安定下来:只有当他们安定下来的时候，他们才会有飞节。

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If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.

如果我们生活的很好，时间也很好。我们就是这样，时代就是这样。

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I demolish my bridges behind me - then there is no choice but forward.

我摧毁了我身后的桥梁，除了继续前进，我别无选择。

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Sometimes its controversy, but we all have our choices that we make.

有时这是有争议的，但我们都有自己的选择。

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