Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

  • -- Mark Twain 马克·吐温

旅行对于偏见、偏执和狭隘的思想来说是致命的,我们许多人都非常需要旅行。一个人的一生不可能只在地球的一个小角落里郁郁葱葱地生长,就能获得对人和事的广泛、健康、宽容的看法。

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The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor's shortcomings as he is of his own.

与邻居和睦相处的能力在很大程度上取决于与我们自己和睦相处的能力。有自尊心的人会尽量容忍邻居的缺点,就像他容忍自己的缺点一样。

If interstellar travel is as time- or energy- demanding as the above figures indicate, it is far from obvious what the motive for colonization might be.

如果星际旅行像上面的数字所显示的那样需要时间或能量,那么殖民的动机就远不明显了。

You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself.

你不能走这条路,直到你成为这条路本身。

We should not permit tolerance to degenerate into indifference.

我们不应让容忍堕落为漠不关心。

Race prejudice can't be talked down, it must be lived down.

种族偏见不能用言语消除,必须消除。

Impartiality is to accept that we are partial.

不偏不倚就是承认我们是偏颇的。