To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.

  • -- Richard Whately 理查德·怀特利

遵循不完善的、不确定的或腐败的传统,以避免在我们自己的判断中犯错,只不过是用一种危险来交换另一种危险。

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Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things.

秩序是头脑的健全,身体的健康,城市的和平,国家的安全。秩序之于万物,犹如房屋之梁,房屋之骨。

To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead.

要使别人进入我们的思维方式,我们必须先进入他们的思维方式;为了成为领导者,有必要跟随。

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

为了达到不可能,我们必须尝试荒谬。

'Late bloomer' is another way of saying 'slow learner.'

“大器晚成者”是“慢学习者”的另一种说法。

This moment will be just another story someday.

这一刻总有一天会成为另一个故事。

People don't like to follow pessimists.

人们不喜欢追随悲观主义者。