Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

-- Thomas Sowell 托马斯·索厄尔

事实不能说明一切。他们支持或反对相互竞争的理论。脱离理论或幻想的事实只是孤立的奇闻异事。

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I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.

我认识一对夫妻，不管法院给出的离婚的官方理由是什么，他们真的离婚了，因为丈夫认为没有人应该在他说话的时候读书，而妻子认为没有人应该在她读书的时候说话。

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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

真正的教育最终必须局限于那些坚持知道的人，其余的只是放羊。

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I've never been married, but I tell people I'm divorced so they won't think something's wrong with me.

我从来没有结过婚，但是我告诉人们我离婚了，这样他们就不会认为我有什么问题。

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Mere words do not feed the friars.

光说不练是喂不饱修士的。

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