As the middle begins to feel safe enough to accept some of the so-called radical thinking, ideas move to the middle and a new edge is created.

  • -- Jasmine Guy 杰斯米·盖

当中间派开始感到足够安全,可以接受一些所谓的激进思想时,思想就会转移到中间派,形成新的边缘。

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If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end - people like myself - should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've ever had it.

如果有的话,对中下层阶级甚至中上层阶级的税收应该进一步削减。但我认为,像我这样的高端人士应该缴纳更多的税款。我们比以往任何时候都过得更好。

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.

激进派一般指的是认为自己能在不影响花的情况下拔出根部的人。保守主义者通常指的是想要保护一切的人,除了他自己保护任何东西的理由。

I think we are living in selfish times. I'm the first one to say that I'm the most selfish. We live in the so-called 'first world,' and we may be first in a lot of things like technology, but we are behind in empathy.

我认为我们生活在一个自私的时代。我是第一个说我最自私的人。我们生活在所谓的“第一世界”,我们可能在很多事情上领先,比如科技,但我们在同理心方面落后了。

A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples.

我们这个时代的第二个特点是民族主义的盛行。这种情况仍在蔓延,影响着新的社区、更边缘的地区和所谓的落后民族。

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

如果你只是站在一旁,呜咽和抱怨,你是不会取得进步的。你通过实施想法来取得进步。

History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

历史告诫我们,新真理的习惯命运是以异端开始,以迷信结束。

The leading edge in evidence presentation is in science; the leading edge in beauty is in high art.

证据呈现的前沿是科学;在美的前沿是在高级艺术。

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.

虽然熟悉可能不会滋生轻视,但它会消除钦佩的边缘。

Betrayal is never easy to handle and there is no right way to accept it.

背叛从来都不容易处理,也没有正确的方式去接受它。

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge that begins with experience.

毫无疑问,我们所有的知识都是从经验开始的。

The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

一美元的价值是社会性的,因为它是由社会创造的。

There are no accidents without intentions.

没有目的就没有事故。

Comfort came in with the middle classes.

中产阶级从中得到了安慰。

Some things are created to be together.

有些东西是为了在一起而创造的。

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.

无色的绿色思想狂暴地沉睡。