A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'

  • -- Barack Obama 巴拉克奥巴马

一个好的妥协,一个好的立法,就像一个好的句子;或者一首好音乐。每个人都能认出来。他们说,‘啊。它的工作原理。它是有意义的。

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I do feel that if you can write one good sentence and then another good sentence and then another, you end up with a good story.

我觉得如果你能写出一个又一个好句子,你就能写出一个好故事。

I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read - .'

我不知道有哪句话能象这句话开头那样,直截了当,厚颜无耻地撒谎:“你读过吗?”

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

如果人们仅仅因为害怕惩罚而善良,而希望得到回报,那么我们真的很遗憾。

Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.

权力不应集中在那么少数人手中,而无能为力则应集中在那么多人手中。

I would rather be politically dead than hypocritically immortalized.

我宁愿在政治上死去,也不愿虚伪地永垂不朽。

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

一个只顾自己的人只能做一件小事。