Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom.

  • -- Robert Hall 霍尔

无论什么东西,只要是古代所支持的、权威所强制的、风俗所推荐的,人类就容易产生强烈的偏见。

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Once you're directing, you're kind of in a certain mode, where you're taking whatever is on the page and forming it into the film that you think it might want to be. So whether it's my writing or not, I still try to work with it in the same way.

一旦你开始导演,你就进入了一种特定的模式,你把纸上的任何东西都拍成你认为它可能想要的样子。所以不管是不是我写的,我还是会用同样的方法来写。

The right of conscience and private judgment is unalienable, and it is truly the interest of all mankind to unite themselves into one body for the liberty, free exercise, and unmolested enjoyment of this right.

良知和个人判断的权利是不可剥夺的,为了自由、自由行使和不受干扰地享有这一权利而把自己团结成一个整体,确实符合全人类的利益。

There should be no effort, consciously or otherwise, that will lead to the erosion of institutional credibility and authority.

无论有意或无意,都不应作出任何将导致削弱机构信誉和权威的努力。

Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.

人是如此简单,如此倾向于服从眼前的需要,以至于一个骗子永远不会因为他的欺骗而缺少受害者。

People who eat potatoes will never be able to perform their abilities in whatever job they choose to have.

吃土豆的人将永远无法在他们选择的任何工作中发挥他们的能力。

I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.

我和教皇一样有权威,只是没有那么多人相信。