It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same effect in the same circumstances.

  • -- Thomas Reid 托马斯·里德

动机的影响是否由自然规律所决定,使它们在同样的情况下总是具有同样的效果,这是一个事实问题。

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A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.

一个对人民生活的关切和环境不敏感的政治,一个不与人民对话、不把人民包括在内的政治,是一个理应失败的自以为是的政治。

I'd like to meet god. Not to question it, just to have a peak at what it is. I say 'it' because we don't know what it is.

我想见见上帝。不去质疑它,只是在它是什么的时候有一个峰值。我说“它”是因为我们不知道它是什么。

What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?

什么是青春,除了一个男人或女人,在它准备好或适合被看到?

I don't know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.

我不知道爱会改变。人改变。环境的变化。