There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors... But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity.

  • -- Claude Adrien Helvetius 克劳德·阿德里安·海尔维提乌斯

有些人有一种快乐的性情,一种强烈的荣誉感和自尊感,他们对正义和美德的热爱与一般人对财富和荣誉的热爱是一样的……但这些人的数目是如此之少,我提到他们只是为了向人类表示敬意。

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I... was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was the Joan of Arc of the women's movement. And I wasn't at all. It put a lot of unnecessary pressure on me.

我…不太乐意突然承担这个强加给我的公众角色。他们只是认为我是妇女运动的圣女贞德。而我根本不是。这给我带来了很多不必要的压力。

I think you can be happy and still be competitive. A good lesson for everybody is to think a bit before you speak and represent who you really are instead of the brash emotional you.

我认为你可以很快乐,同时也很有竞争力。对每个人来说,一个很好的教训是,在你说话之前要三思而后行,展现真实的自己,而不是鲁莽的情绪化的自己。

It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire people's imagination, and all of them were very difficult women.

我觉得很有趣的是,某些类型的女性激发了人们的想象力,而她们都是非常难相处的女性。

General statements omit what we really want to know. Example: some horses run faster than others.

一般的陈述忽略了我们真正想知道的东西。有些马跑得比其他马快。

Our thinking behind these agreements is that we want all jobs in General Motors to be good jobs.

我们在这些协议背后的想法是,我们希望通用汽车的所有工作都是好工作。

I have two children and they're young yet but all of the children that I know really inspire me.

我有两个孩子,他们还很小,但我认识的所有孩子都给了我很大的启发。

Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency to get the book written.

一切都随波逐流:荣誉、骄傲、体面,这些都是写这本书所需要的。

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

不是头衔使人尊贵,而是人尊敬头衔。