If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

  • -- Abraham Lincoln 亚伯拉罕·林肯

如果你一旦丧失了同胞们的信任,你就永远无法重新获得他们的尊重和尊重。的确,有时候你可能会愚弄所有的人;你甚至可以一直愚弄一些人;但是你不可能一直愚弄所有的人。

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I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers' work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver.

我从小就想成为一名作家,尽管这似乎不太可能,因为我没有显示出真正的才华。但我坚持了下来,最终找到了自己的那排锄头。对其他作家作品的无知使我不会灰心丧气,我的阅读量也不如一般的公共汽车司机。

You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.

你不能坐在领先的位置上,把几个球打到线内,就这样消磨时间。你必须把球扔过那个该死的盘子,然后给另一个人他的机会。这就是为什么棒球是所有运动中最伟大的运动。

Playing and singing at the same time is pretty cool, but sometimes it's difficult to know when you can just really let go a bit because you've got to get back to bloody microphone and sing some stuff.

同时演奏和唱歌是很酷的,但有时很难知道什么时候你能真正放开一点,因为你必须回到血腥的麦克风前,唱一些东西。

It is critical that parents and other trusted adults initiate conversations with kids about underage drinking well in advance of the first time they are faced with a decision regarding alcohol.

至关重要的是,父母和其他值得信赖的成年人要在孩子第一次面对有关酒精的决定之前,就开始与他们谈论未成年人饮酒的问题。

More than ever before, there is a global understanding that long-term social, economic, and environmental development would be impossible without healthy families, communities, and countries.

全球比以往任何时候都更加认识到,如果没有健康的家庭、社区和国家,长期的社会、经济和环境发展将是不可能的。

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.

惩罚是立法者手中预防犯罪的最后和最不有效的工具。

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy.

你无知的标志是你对不公正和悲剧的信仰之深。

Lying to other people isn’t hard. It’s lying to yourself that’s the trouble.

对别人说谎并不难。对自己说谎才是问题所在。

Always tell the truth. That way, you don't have to remember what you said.

永远说实话。这样,你就不需要记住你说的话了。

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.

谦逊与自负之间的微妙平衡是受欢迎程度。