Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

  • -- Thomas Carlyle 托马斯·卡莱尔

人是一种会使用工具的动物。没有工具,他什么也不是;有了工具,他就是一切。

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Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

任何称职的人都会坚持他认为正确的事情,但只有稍微好一点的人才会立即毫无保留地承认自己错了。

My mother saved hundreds of animals in her life. Wherever she encountered and injured or needy or abandoned animal, she brought it home.

我母亲一生中拯救了数百只动物。无论她在哪里遇到受伤的、需要帮助的或被遗弃的动物,她都会把它带回家。

Do not dwell in a city where a horse does not neigh nor a dog bark.

不要住在马不叫、狗不吠的城里。

I start where the last man left off.

我从最后一个人停止的地方开始。