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In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed – they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce…? The cuckoo clock. (Orson Welles)In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed – they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce…? The cuckoo clock. (Orson Welles)

「ボルジア家統治下の30年間,イタリアで起きたのは戦争,テロ,殺人,流血だったが,同時にミケランジェロとレオナルド・ダ・ヴィンチとルネッサンスを生んだ。スイスには友愛精神と500年に及ぶ平和と民主主義があったが,生み出し […]

If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible he is almost certainly right, but if he says that it is impossible he is very probably wrong. (Arthur C. Clarke)If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible he is almost certainly right, but if he says that it is impossible he is very probably wrong. (Arthur C. Clarke)

「年はとっているが高名な科学者が,しかじかのことはある得ることだと述べる場合,彼はほぼ確実に正しい。しかし,そんなことはあり得ないと言う場合には,おそらく彼は間違っている。」 (アーサー C. クラーク) elderly […]

Every vice you destroy has a corresponding virtue, which perishes along with it. (Anatole France)Every vice you destroy has a corresponding virtue, which perishes along with it. (Anatole France)

「あなたが滅ぼす悪癖の一つ一つには,それと表裏一体に美点がはり付いていて,それも一緒に消滅してしまう。」 (アナトール・フランス 『エピクロスの園』) vice 「悪」「欠点」 ←→ virtue […]

And where we are met with cynicism and doubt and those who tell us that we can’t, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes, we can. (Barack Obama)And where we are met with cynicism and doubt and those who tell us that we can’t, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes, we can. (Barack Obama)

「そしてシニシズムや疑念や『できっこない』と言う人々に出会うなら,国民精神を集約しているあの不朽の信条をもって答えよう。わたしたちにはできるのだと。」 英語の Yes – No は,動詞を肯定するか否定するか […]