Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

  • -- Jacob August Riis 雅各布·奥古斯特·里斯

看看一个石匠用锤子不停地敲打他的石头,也许敲了一百遍,但石头上连一条裂缝都没有。然而,在第一次一百次的打击中,它会分裂成两半,我知道这不是最后一次打击,而是以前所有的打击。

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Children, a lot of times, can't make their parents wrong because they have to live with them, because they have to love them. And when you're young, you can't get on your Big Wheel and go down to the Best Western. You've got to live there and you've got to figure it out.

很多时候,孩子不能让他们的父母犯错,因为他们必须和他们一起生活,因为他们必须爱他们。当你年轻的时候,你不能骑着你的大轮子去看最好的西部片。你必须住在那里,你必须弄清楚。

Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race.

无论种族在一定时期内取得历史上前所未有的发展,其荣耀属于哪一种种族,其全部的份额都属于该种族的妇女。