Wars are not acts of God. They are caused by man, by man-made institutions, by the way in which man has organized his society. What man has made, man can change.

  • -- Frederick Moore Vinson 弗雷德里克·摩尔·文森

战争不是上帝的行为。它们是由人类造成的,由人为的制度,由人类组织社会的方式造成的。人创造了什么,就能改变什么。

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The very special place that a language occupies among institutions is undeniable, but there is much more to be said-, a comparison would tend rather to bring out the differences.

一种语言在机构中所占的特殊地位是不可否认的,但还有很多话要说——比较往往会揭示出不同之处。

Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or sheer weirdness.

几乎所有的机构拥有的艺术品都比它们所能展示的多得多,其中很多都揭示了它的时效性、天才性或纯粹的怪异。

Things that change and are lost, that is what's worth preserving.

改变和失去的东西,才是值得保留的。

Change before you have to.

在你不得不改变之前先改变。