It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year.

  • -- Tom Lehrer 汤姆·莱勒

想想莫扎特在我这个年纪时就已经去世一年了,真是发人深省。

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I'm always asking questions - not to find 'answers,' but to see where the questions lead. Dead ends sometimes? That's fine. New directions? Interesting. Great insights? Over-ambitious. A glimpse here and there? Perfect.

我总是在问问题——不是为了找到“答案”,而是想看看这些问题会引向何方。有时死胡同吗?这很好。新方向?有趣。伟大的见解?有些不自量力。到处看一眼?完美的。

I can guarantee you this, that more pension and benefit reforms which I will consider arbitration reform to be one of them, are things that when they come to my desk, they will be signed.

我可以向你们保证,更多的养老金和福利改革,我将把仲裁改革作为其中之一,这些改革将在我的办公桌上签署。

Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.

谦卑是一种优雅,它在高尚的环境中闪耀光芒,但在卑微的环境中却无法同样闪耀光芒,因为一个人在卑微的环境中可能已经过于谦卑了。

The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

所有的解决方案都很简单——在你找到它们之后。但只有当你已经知道它们是什么时,它们才会变得简单。

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

死者不能要求正义。活着的人有责任为他们这样做。

I consider myself a court jester - motivator.

我认为我自己是一个宫廷小丑的鼓动者。