It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.

  • -- Eric Hoffer 埃里克·霍弗

激起人们反抗的不是真正的痛苦,而是对美好事物的品味。

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We as a people, as a state, and as a community, have too much promise, too much potential, and too much at stake to go any other way than forward. We are too strong in our hearts, too innovative in our minds, and too firm in our beliefs to retreat from our goals.

我们作为一个民族,一个国家,一个社区,有太多的希望,太多的潜力,太多的利害攸关,我们只能向前走。我们的内心太强大,我们的思想太创新,我们的信念太坚定,我们无法从目标中退缩。

I was so afraid of upsetting people, and not being liked for saying something that was not to everyone's taste.

我非常害怕惹恼别人,也害怕说一些不合大家口味的话而不被人喜欢。

Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.

利益分配要循序渐进;这样他们的味道会更好。

Why do we never expect dull people to be rascals?

为什么我们从不期望迟钝的人是流氓?