People say the sound of thunder that sometimes carries over the dry land around the Pecos River is nothing more than Pecos Bill's family laughing up a storm.

VOA: special.2009.11.28

There is a kind of internal irony here, I think because Hobbes sometimes writes as if, as we've seen, as if human beings are nothing more than complex machines that mechanically obey the laws of attraction and repulsion.

但我想这儿似乎存在着一种讽刺,因为霍布斯笔下的人，似乎就只是一具复杂的机器,只知机械地遵循法律所允许和不允许的事,这点我们在前面已有所耳闻。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

It is sometimes better to say nothing than to speak.

VOA: special.2010.06.06