Nobody knows through how many thousands of years fighting men have made a place for themselves while the weak and peaceable have gone to the wall.

  • -- Elihu Root 伊莱休·鲁特

没有人知道过了多少千年,战士们为自己建立了一个地方,而软弱和平的人却去了长城。

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Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought.

至少在思想领域里,你是没有锁链的;你有权探索任何高度和深度;在广阔的思想空间里,没有墙,没有栅栏,没有禁地,没有神圣的角落。

We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.

我们教导人们,他们会让自己难过。我们无法改变过去,所以我们要改变人们今天的想法、感受和行为。

The place where optimism flourishes most is the lunatic asylum.

乐观主义最盛行的地方是疯人院。

Too low they build who build below the skies.

那些在天空下建造的人,他们建造得太低了。