The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity.

  • -- Alan Gregg 阿伦·柯莱格

人类在逆境中生存有着悠久的经验和优良的传统。但我们现在面临着一项我们几乎没有经验的任务,那就是繁荣昌盛。

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The artist's task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. If artists cannot find the way, then the way cannot be found.

艺术家的任务是拯救人类的灵魂;在罗马燃烧的时候,任何不足都是一种犹豫。如果艺术家找不到路,那么路就找不到。

People should reject God defiantly in order to pour out all their loving solicitude upon mankind.

人们应该大胆地拒绝上帝,以便把他们所有的爱和关怀倾注到人类身上。

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

我们在逆境中变得更聪明;繁荣破坏了我们对权利的欣赏。

If I have smashed the traditions, it was because I knew no traditions.

如果我打破了传统,那是因为我对传统一无所知。

If you never go up a hill, you will never know what a plain is like.

如果你从不上山,你就永远不会知道平原是什么样子。

Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.

小提琴演奏是一门有着悠久传统的体育艺术。