Men acquiesce in a thousand things, once righteously and boldly done, to which, if proposed to them in advance, they might find endless objections.

  • -- Robert Dale Owen 罗伯特·戴尔·欧文

人们默认了一千件事情,这些事情曾经是公正而大胆地做过的,如果事先向他们提出,他们可能会发现无数的反对意见。

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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

即使在文学和艺术领域,也没有人为原创而烦恼的人永远不会是原创的。相反,如果你只是想说真话(不在乎别人告诉你多少次),十有八九你会在没有注意到的情况下变得原创。

A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.

文明是建立在人们所需要的东西之上的,而不是建立在为他们提供的东西之上。

I often sit back and think, I wish I'd done that, and find out later that I already have.

我经常坐下来想,我希望我已经做了,然后发现我已经做了。

It is with unwelcome frequency that I find myself the deciding vote.

我经常发现自己是决定性的一票,这是不受欢迎的。