Privacy about giving is counterproductive. There is solid scientific research showing that people are more likely to give if they can see that others are giving. The richest people, in particular, should be setting an example.

  • -- Peter Albert David Singer 彼得·艾伯特·大卫·辛格

关于给予的隐私会适得其反。有可靠的科学研究表明,如果人们能看到别人在付出,他们就更有可能付出。尤其是那些最富有的人,应该树立一个榜样。

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I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly out-of-body journeys described by those who narrowly escaped death.

我理解濒死之人的大脑会发生什么,我一直相信,对于那些死里逃生的人所描述的天堂般的灵魂出窍之旅,有很好的科学解释。

I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.

九岁那年,我躺在床上对自己说:‘我想成为世界上最富有的人。“我从那里走了很长一段路。

If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.

如果对我们的统治者进行精神病学和科学的调查,人类将会对这种揭露感到震惊。

As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.

在我们看来,怪诞作为与崇高相对立的一种手段,是大自然所能提供的最丰富的源泉。