It is not worth the paper it is written on unless it is backed by the kind of force that will make the other side consider the penalties too heavy to break the agreement.

  • -- Yitzhak Rabin 伊扎克·拉宾

它不值得写在纸上,除非它得到某种力量的支持,这种力量会让另一方认为惩罚太重,无法破坏协议。

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In all our associations; in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim - that all power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people.

在我们所有的交往中;在我们所有的协议中,让我们永远不要忘记这一基本原则,即一切权力最初是属于人民的,因此也是来自人民的。

When I get home from a heavy work day, I make sure I get outside with the kids. I don't think there's any better cure than being active as a family outside.

当我结束一天繁重的工作回到家,我一定要和孩子们出去玩。我不认为有什么比像一家人一样在户外活动更好的治疗方法了。

The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.

存在于北方和南方之间的契约是与死亡的契约,是与地狱的协议。

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

习惯的枷锁太轻了,你感觉不到,直到它们太沉重了,你无法打破。

History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.

历史既不提供对苦难的补偿,也不提供对错误的惩罚。