每个人都对自己的身体拥有所有权,没有人有权支配他,除了他自己。
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
纺织行业有责任在可持续性方面发挥领导作用。
Legal rights are not merely the shadows of legal duties.
官员愈多,则政府越弱。
也许宇宙中最反直觉的真理是:你给别人的越多,你得到的也越多。了解这一点是智慧的开始。
At that age, I'd take any excuse to make estimates and do minor arithmetic. I'd calculate our gas mileage -- figure out useless statistics on things like grocery spending. I'd been hearing an ad campaign about smoking. I can't remember the details, but basically the ad said, every puff of a cigarette takes some number of minutes off of your life: I think it might have been two minutes per puff. At any rate, I decided to do the math for my grandmother. I estimated the number of cigarettes per days, estimated the number of puffs per cigarette and so on. When I was satisfied that I'd come up with a reasonable number, I poked my head into the front of the car, tapped my grandmother on the shoulder, and proudly proclaimed, "At two minutes per puff, you've taken nine years off your life!"
Writing is a way of speaking without being interrupted.