To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.

  • -- Thomas Paine 托马斯·潘恩

说任何一个人都不适合自由,就是让贫困成为他们的选择,说他们宁愿背负重税也不愿不负担。

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I think there needs to be a way to allow people to become educated if they've paid taxes, they've been here a long time. And I think, actually, we need to think about young people are not making the decision on whether to come here.

我认为需要有一种方式让人们接受教育,如果他们已经纳税,他们已经在这里生活了很长时间。我认为,实际上,我们需要考虑的是,年轻人并没有决定是否来这里。

The way to activate the seeds of your creation is by making choices about the results you want to create. When you make a choice, you activate vast human energies and resources, which otherwise go untapped.

激活你创造的种子的方法是选择你想要创造的结果。当你做出选择时,你激活了巨大的人力资源和能量,否则这些资源和能量是无法被利用的。

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

但是,让你们在一起有空间,让天空的风在你们之间舞蹈。彼此相爱,但不要让爱成为纽带:让爱成为你们灵魂海岸之间流动的大海。

Mr. Darwin contributes some striking and ingenious instances of the way in which the principle partially affects the chain, or rather network of life, even to the total obliteration of certain meshes.

达尔文先生提供了一些惊人而巧妙的例子,说明了这个原理是如何部分地影响生命的链条,或者说是网络的,甚至是某些网格的完全消失。

The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.

只有一种自由配得上这个名字,那就是以我们自己的方式追求我们自己的利益,只要我们不企图剥夺别人的利益,或妨碍他们为获得这种利益所作的努力。

I don't do much more than organise other people's ideas and insights and thoughts, and sort of harvest them, and inventory them and present them.

我所做的不过是整理别人的想法、见解和想法,然后收集、整理和呈现出来。

Circumstances shape who we are and who we become. I believe that. But I also believe we have choices. There are always choices.

环境塑造我们是谁,我们成为谁。我相信。但我也相信我们有选择。总是有选择的。

It is a good thing to know what it is to be poor, and a better thing if you can do it in company.

知道贫穷是一件好事,如果你能在公司里做到这一点,那就更好了。

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.

希望和喜悦是真正的财富;一个人要恐惧和悲伤,真正的贫穷。

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

在这个世界上,除了死亡和税收,没有什么是可以肯定的。

A free race cannot be born of slave mothers.

一个自由的种族不能由奴隶母亲所生。

I hate when people call me 'The Boz'.

我讨厌别人叫我“笨蛋”。