It should simply be an empirical matter whether the climate is changing or not and whether we're responsible. But the various sides of the debate have now become so tribal that it's no longer a matter of changing our views as more information comes in.

  • -- Ian McEwan 伊恩·麦克尤恩

这应该是一个简单的经验问题,无论气候是否在变化,我们是否负有责任。但是,辩论的各方现在已经变得如此部落化,随着更多信息的到来,改变我们的观点不再是问题。

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If you loved someone, you couldn’t let lies come between you. No matter what happened – even if you’d already lost each other forever – you owed each other the truth.

如果你爱一个人,你不能让谎言挡在你们之间。不管发生了什么——即使你们已经永远失去了对方——你们都欠对方真相。

On the contrary. Internationalism also recognizes, by its very name, that nations do exist. It simply limits their scope more than one-sided nationalism does.

相反。国际主义也承认,就其名称而言,国家确实存在。它只是限制了他们的范围,而不是片面的民族主义。

Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to make money.

关掉电视,开始挖掘那些不是来自一家试图赚钱的公司的信息。

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.

你的立场在哪里并不重要。只有你在那里……仍然站着。

The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind.

受过教育的人并不拥有共同的信息体系,而是拥有共同的思维状态。

It simply is not true that war never settles anything.

战争永远解决不了任何问题,这是不对的。