The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it.

  • -- Wendell Berry 温德尔·贝里

过去是我们的定义。我们有充分的理由去努力摆脱它,或者摆脱它的缺点,但是我们只有在它的基础上添加更好的东西,才能摆脱它。

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Education is the foundation for all we do in life, it shapes who we are and what we aspire to be. Creativity fuels innovation, and it's what all states should strive to instill in the next generations.

教育是我们在生活中所做一切的基础,它塑造了我们是谁,我们渴望成为什么样的人。创造力推动创新,这是所有国家都应该努力灌输给下一代的东西。

It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

该是喝醉的时候了!要逃避成为时间的奴隶,就得不停地喝醉。关于酒,关于诗,或者关于美德,随你的便。

We seek to get away from it all when it is only a part that is giving us trouble.

当它只是给我们带来麻烦的一部分时,我们试图摆脱它。

Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.

混沌是所有复杂事物的固有属性。勤奋奋斗。