Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

  • -- Ralph Waldo Emerson 拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生

社会总是对任何常识的新例子感到惊讶。

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There are certainly good examples of incredibly brilliant, beautiful music that has been made commercially available and sold everywhere. But I would say that, for the most part, quantity certainly does not speak well for quality.

当然,也有一些非常出色、美妙的音乐被商业化销售到世界各地。但我要说的是,在很大程度上,数量当然不能代表质量。

It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rights kick in, surely, precisely when the conditions are extreme and the situation is abnormal.

这可能是异常情况所带来的一个极端例子- -但是,人权的标准肯定是在极端情况和异常情况下发挥作用的。

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.

一个受过教育的人是这样的人:他知道,事实往往是,信息至多是不完整的,而且往往是错误的、误导人的、虚构的、虚假的——完全是错误的。

Most of the time people are aiming so low on television. They're trying to reach that common denominator, especially on network television.

大多数时候,人们在电视上的目标都很低。他们正试图达到这个共识,尤其是在网络电视上。

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

我们享受的快乐时刻会给我们带来惊喜。不是我们抓住了他们,而是他们抓住了我们。

Never expect things to happen it's better to feel surprised than to feel disappointed.

永远不要期望事情会发生感到惊讶总比感到失望好。

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

智慧不变的标志是在平凡中看到奇迹。

I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try.

我并不总是成功,但我愿意认为我在努力。