The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.

  • -- Thomas Jefferson 托马斯·杰斐逊

造物主认为不应该在额头上标记出那些有能力成为优秀将军的人。因此,我们首先要蒙住他们的眼睛,然后让他们以巨大的损失为代价来学习交易。

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I had to learn to forgive. I couldn't sleep at night. I got ulcers. I had to let go, to let God deal with it. No one wants to be mad in their own house. I didn't want to be angry my whole life. It takes so much energy out of you to be mean.

我必须学会原谅。我晚上睡不着。我有溃疡。我不得不放手,让上帝来处理这件事。没有人想在自己家里发疯。我一生都不想生气。你太小气了,这要消耗你太多精力。

My mom was so people-friendly. She was incredible. She'd go to the mall, and she'd talk to everyone. Give people a kiss on the cheek. I think if I wasn't pushed around a lot, I'd be great with people. Maybe I still can be.

我妈妈对人很友好。她是不可思议的。她会去购物中心,和每个人聊天。亲吻别人的脸颊。我想如果我不经常被人摆布,我会和人们相处得很好。也许我还可以。

Good characters make you feel like you have new friends, don’t they? You have to re-read the books just to visit with them again. Grace Awakening. Book one: Awakening Dreams

好的性格会让你觉得你有了新朋友,不是吗?你必须重读这些书,才能再次和他们见面。优雅的觉醒。第一册:唤醒梦想

Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.

电视可以在大众教育中发挥巨大的作用,但没有迹象表明它的赞助商有这样的想法。

Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.

仅仅进入法院的大门本身并不能保证对敌程序的正常运作。

I believe we must seek God's will, never presuming to identify it with our own program or power.

我相信我们必须寻求上帝的旨意,永远不要假定它与我们自己的计划或能力相一致。

The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.

了解世界的正确途径是检查我们对世界的错误认识。

There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

没有错误,没有巧合,所有的事情都是上天给我们的祝福,让我们从中学习。

Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

不要向外求好处,要向内求,不然,永远找不到。

If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.

如果说大西洋彼岸的意识形态是一种骄傲,那么在这里,它正在传递商品。