Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

  • -- George Jean Nathan 内森

政治是庸人的消遣,当他们在政治上取得成功时,在更多庸人的眼里就变得重要了。

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I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.

我认为语言现象具有基本的重要性。“说”的意思是能够使用某种语法,掌握这种或那种语言的形态,但最重要的是要假定一种文化,支持一种文明的重量。

Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.

那些有钱的人认为世界上最重要的是爱。穷人知道那是钱。

God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.

上帝不要求我们成功,他只要求你去尝试。

The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.

不失败最可靠的方法是决心成功。