It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

  • -- Theodore Roosevelt 西奥多·罗斯福

用最好的法律来改善我们的物质条件是困难的,但用坏的法律来破坏它却很容易。

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We're always attracted to characters who are people we could identify with and yet are put through incredibly tortured or difficult circumstances - the idea being that you don't really know who you are until you've been tested or suffered in some way.

我们总是被一些角色所吸引,这些角色是我们能够认同的人,但却经历了难以置信的折磨或艰难的环境——这种想法是,你不知道自己是谁,直到你经历了某种考验或遭受某种痛苦。

I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.

我抗议说,如果某个大国愿意让我永远思考什么是真的,做什么是对的,条件是把我变成一种时钟,每天早上在我起床之前就起床,那么我就应该立刻结束这个提议。

How often one reads a contemporary full-length novel and thinks quietly, mutinously, that it would have worked out better at half or a third the length.

有多少次,一个人在读一本当代的长篇小说时,会不动声色地、反叛地想,要是能读到一半或三分之一的篇幅就更好了。

There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia,' but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.

没有“精神分裂症”这样的病症,但这个标签是一个社会事实,而社会事实是一个政治事件。

It cannot be assumed that equity was following common law whenever they agreed, any more than the converse.

我们不能假定,只要他们同意,衡平法就会遵循普通法,反之亦然。

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

对人类处境绝望的人是懦夫,对人类处境抱有希望的人是傻瓜。

That difficult place to put your finger on about the world - it needs to be illustrated.

这是一个很难把你的手指放在世界上的地方——它需要说明。

There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory.

在出现更好的理论之前,不存在证伪。

Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.

艺术创造规则;规则不构成艺术品。

I worked my way through law school.

我靠自己的努力读完了法学院。