Events are called inevitable only after they have occurred.

  • -- Mason Cooley 梅森·库利

只有在事情发生之后,人们才会说它是不可避免的。

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We must never despair; our situation has been compromising before, and it has changed for the better; so I trust it will again. If difficulties arise, we must put forth new exertion and proportion our efforts to the exigencies of the times.

我们决不能绝望;我们的处境以前曾有过妥协,现在已经变得更好了;所以我相信它会再次出现。如果出现困难,我们必须作出新的努力,使我们的努力与时代的需要相适应。

At all events, arbitration is more rational, just, and humane than the resort to the sword.

无论如何,仲裁比诉诸武力更加理性、公正和人道。