Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.

  • -- George William Curtis 乔治·威廉姆·柯蒂斯

人类历史上的每一次重大危机都是塞莫皮莱的一个关口,如果列奥尼达和他的三百人不能征服,他们就会死在那里。

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Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

我们人类的同情心将我们彼此联系在一起——不是出于怜悯或施恩,而是作为学会了如何将我们共同的苦难转化为对未来的希望的人。

Crisis alone is not enough. There must also be a basis, though it need be neither rational nor ultimately correct, for faith in the particular candidate chosen.

光有危机是不够的。对特定候选人的信任也必须有一个基础,尽管这个基础既不理性,也不完全正确。

I move to appoint a Committee to correspond with the neighboring colonies, on the present important Crisis.

我提议任命一个委员会,就当前的重大危机与邻近的殖民地进行协调。

Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.

每个群体都有自己的特点,但在某种程度上,我们都是人。