Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

  • -- George Santayana 乔治·桑塔亚纳

不记得过去的人注定要重蹈覆辙。

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There can be no assumption that today's majority is "right" and the Amish and others like them are "wrong." A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no rights or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different.

不能假设今天的大多数人是“正确的”,而阿米什人和其他类似的人是“错误的”。一种奇怪甚至不稳定但不干涉他人权益的生活方式不应因其不同而受到谴责。

I don't remember my parents together, ever: my father was much older, and really only interested in collecting magazines and bathroom suites; we were the only family in the area to have a bathroom suite on the lawn.

我不记得我的父母曾经在一起:我的父亲比我大得多,他真的只对收集杂志和浴室套间感兴趣;我们是这个地区唯一一个在草坪上拥有浴室套房的家庭。

Our Lord never condemned the fig tree because it brought forth so much fruit that some fell to the ground and spoiled. He only cursed it when it was barren.

我们的主从来没有定无花果树的罪,因为它结的果子甚多,有的落在地上坏了。他只是在它不生育的时候才诅咒它。

Who we are and what we do it is fundamentally a function of what we remember.

我们是谁,我们做什么,本质上是我们记忆的功能。