语言是一种皮肤:我用我的语言摩擦他人的语言。就好像我有的是词语而不是手指,或者我的手指在词语的尖端。
Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tips of my words.
一位哥伦比亚大学的学生问到巴菲特关于投资美国航空的原因,他说
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
如果你想要某种品质,表现得好像你已经拥有它。