I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.

  • -- Everett McKinley Dirksen 德克森

我是一个有固定不变的原则的人,第一个原则是任何时候都要灵活。

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A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.

一个人如果对人类有整体的同情,对人类未来的进步有信心,愿意为人类进步的伟大事业服务,就不应该被称为人道主义者,而应该被称为人道主义者,他的信条可以被称为人道主义。

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away."

据说,一位东方君主曾经命令他的智者为他编造一个句子,让他随时出现在眼前,而且这个句子在任何时候和任何情况下都应该是正确和恰当的。他们对他说:“这一切都会过去的。”

I have done things politically, and I've been running a business at the same time, but I sort of joke that to some extent I do more than most legislators have done in their whole careers, and I've been doing it as a part-time job.

我做过政治方面的事情,同时我也在经营一家企业,但我开玩笑说,在某种程度上,我做的事情比大多数议员在他们整个职业生涯中做的还要多,而且我一直在做兼职。

It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.

这是一件奇怪的事情……每一种信仰都承诺有一个天堂,绝对不适合任何有文明品味的人居住。

The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.

道德律要求我们把世界上可能达到的最高善作为我们一切行为的最终目标。

I look forward to a lot more free time, at least initially, with my wife, Lisa, and our three children.

我期待着有更多的自由时间,至少在开始的时候,和我的妻子丽莎,还有我们的三个孩子在一起。

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

如果一个人太拘泥于自己的原则,他就很难见到任何人。