A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
政治
Political
In closing, let me just thank God, on the floor of the House, for not turning away from us even though we seem to be turning away from Him.
最后,让我感谢上帝,感谢他站在我们的地板上,感谢他没有离开我们,即使我们似乎要离开他。
But the ability to articulate what you are doing, to be clear about it, and to stick to it is, I think, the essence of political leadership.
但是,我认为,政治领导的本质是能够清楚地表达自己在做什么,并且能够坚持到底。
Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
理解合法和非法都是政治性的,而且常常是武断的分类;使用和滥用是医学上或临床上的区别。
Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.
金钱从来不会使人幸福,将来也不会。从本质上讲,没有什么能产生幸福。一个人拥有的越多,他想要的就越多。
The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to govern the society.
教会在人类社会和历史上的介入和活跃,并不是为了行使政治权力或统治社会而存在的。
Obviously, I have been a pro-choice candidate for my entire political career, and obviously there is controversy always surrounding this issue.
很明显,在我的整个政治生涯中,我一直是一个支持选择的候选人,很明显,围绕这个问题一直存在争议。
Certain political figures think when you call them and ask them for a comment; that you are somehow doing something that you shouldn't be doing.
当你给某些政治人物打电话,请他们评论时,他们会思考;你在做一些你不应该做的事情。
I don't think voters give a hoot about the character of their political advisors, except to the extent that character reflects on the candidates.
我不认为选民们会对他们的政治顾问的性格大惊小怪,除非他们的性格反映在候选人身上。
The fact is that the diversity in this political class serves the same interest as diversity in any arena, which is it stirs the competitive pot.
事实上,这个政治阶层的多样性与任何领域的多样性都符合同样的利益,那就是它会激起竞争。
You really have to try hard to create space and, at least for a time, stop the political world from rushing in. The important thing is to remain sane.
你真的必须努力创造空间,至少在一段时间内,阻止政治世界涌入。重要的是保持理智。
Apple is in a position they've been in a lot of times before. They're like Moses showing the way to the promised land, but they don't actually go there.
苹果已经处在他们之前很多次所处的位置。他们就像摩西指引通往应许之地的路,但他们并没有真正去那里。
We have an obligation to live in harmony with creation, with our capital... with God's creation. And we need to administer and work that very carefully.
我们有义务与创造、与我们的资本和谐相处……神的创造。我们需要非常小心地管理和工作。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
渴望被他的同伴们观察、考虑、尊重、赞扬、喜爱和钦佩,这是人类心灵中发现的最早也是最敏锐的性情之一。
We should be therefore supporting a larger Europe, and in so doing we should strive to expand the zone of peace and prosperity in the world which is the necessary foundation for a stable international system in which our leadership could be fruitfully exercised.
因此,我们应该支持一个更大的欧洲,在这样做的时候,我们应该努力扩大世界上和平与繁荣的地区,这是一个稳定的国际制度的必要基础,在这个制度中,我们的领导才能能够得到有效的发挥。
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
一般来说,自从烹饪技术进步以来,人类所吃的食物是大自然所需要的两倍。
For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
由于长命百岁,我经历过许多这样的事例:由于获得了更好的信息或更充分的考虑,我不得不改变自己的观点,甚至在一些重要的问题上也是如此。我曾经认为这些观点是正确的,但后来发现事实并非如此。
All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.
人类可以分为三类:一类是不能移动的,一类是可以移动的,一类是可以移动的。
Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it.
如今,学生们来到这所大学时,对我们的政治传统既无知又冷嘲热讽,既缺乏必要的资金来从中获得灵感,也缺乏对它的严肃批评。