It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.

  • -- Joseph Addison 约瑟夫·艾迪生

这是子孙后代的特权,使那些因追求伟大而分裂了整个时代的对手之间的事情变得正确。

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I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.

我希望后代对我的评价是仁慈的,不仅对我所解释的事情,而且对那些我故意省略的事情,以便留给别人去发现的乐趣。

Single payer means something different to everyone. The way I define it is that health care is a right and not a privilege.

单一支付者对每个人都有不同的意义。我对它的定义是,医疗保健是一种权利,而不是特权。

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.

在你年轻的时候,你希望自己的伟大被认为是理所当然的;当你发现这是理所当然的,你就会感到不安。

Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.

既然我们不能活得长久,那就让我们把至少还活过的一些纪念留给后代吧。

The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.

敢于想象其他情况是我们最大的资源,给我们的生活增添了色彩和悬念。

The hallmark of a great captain is the ability to win the toss, at the right time.

伟大队长的标志是在正确的时间赢得投掷的能力。

There is no rivalry between Google and traditional advertising.

谷歌和传统广告之间没有竞争。

Whether you think you can or you think you can't you're right.

无论你认为你能还是不能,你都是对的。

I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire.

我是一个特权阶级的孩子,我醒来时看到的是一个着火的世界。