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We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

  • -- Alexis de Tocqueville 托克维尔

我们成功的企业，需要我们所拥有的积极的品质，但我们在那些也可以利用我们的缺点。

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What We want is to make it possible for our unfortunate people to live a life of industry for it is by steady work alone that we hope for our physical and moral rehabilitation. For this reason above all we have undertaken to rally our people around our ideal.

我们想要的是使我们不幸的人民能够过一种勤奋的生活，因为只有通过稳定的工作，我们才希望我们的身心得到恢复。最重要的是，出于这一原因，我们已承诺将我国人民团结在我们的理想周围。

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We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in.

我们要求人们对我们所拥有的照片保持真实，不管这些照片有多么令人反感:我们更喜欢真实的照片，而不是添加了一些无法融入其中的细节。

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We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but in our heart of hearts we are well assured that the truth which has made us free, will in the end make us glad also.

我们只承认一个动机，那就是跟随我们所知道的真理，无论真理将我们带到何处;但在我们的内心深处，我们确信使我们自由的真理，最终也会使我们快乐。

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The white man's blood and bones have begotten this bronze race, and bequeathed to it in some degree qualities, tendencies, capabilities, such as are the inheritance of the highest order of human animals.

白人的血和骨头孕育了这个青铜种族，并在某种程度上给它留下了品质、倾向和能力，比如人类动物最高等级的遗传。

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My hope is that flexible working and varying shift patterns will give workers a taste for idling and that they will gradually demand greater reductions in the length of the working week.

我希望，灵活的工作方式和不同的轮班模式将让工人们有一种闲散的感觉，他们将逐步要求更大幅度地缩短每周的工作时间。

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It is not about the money. It's the public service aspect. Absolutely, I think it has qualities of redemption. The city gets a second chance. I get a second chance.

这不是钱的问题。这是公共服务方面。当然，我认为它有救赎的特质。这座城市得到了第二次机会。我有第二次机会。

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I probably use my chef's knives more than any other tool in the kitchen. I'm not married to a particular brand, because they all work, they all have sharp blades.

我在厨房里用厨师刀的次数可能比用其他任何工具都多。我没有和某个品牌结婚，因为它们都能工作，都有锋利的刀片。

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I stand ready to lead us down a different path, where we are lifted up by our desire to succeed, not dragged down by a resentment of success.

我随时准备引导我们走上一条不同的道路，在这条道路上，我们被成功的渴望所鼓舞，而不是被成功的怨恨所拖累。

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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

大多数人失败是因为他们缺乏坚持去制定新的计划来代替那些失败的计划。

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Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

美德超群的人最有权利造反，但他们是所有人中最不愿意造反的。

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Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

狡猾是一种隐藏自己缺点，发现别人缺点的艺术。

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I don't think anyone has a right to possess anything he doesn't love - art or anything else.

我认为任何人都没有权利拥有他不爱的东西——艺术或其他任何东西。

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If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

如果所有的事情都有可以原谅的地方，那么也有可以谴责的地方。

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Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

变老只不过是一个忙碌的人没有时间养成的坏习惯。

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Most bands are commercial enterprises. But I'm not in one of those bands.

大多数乐队都是商业企业。但我不属于那些乐队。

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We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.

我们可以改变我们的生活。我们可以做我们想做的，拥有我们想做的，成为我们想成为的。

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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

失败很难，但从未尝试过成功更糟。

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I'm living proof you can excel regardless of where you come from.

我就是活生生的例子，不管你来自哪里，你都能出类拔萃。

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No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

任何环境的改变都无法弥补性格上的缺陷。

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

没有人比那些失去热情的人更老了。

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Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

不信任任何需要新衣服的企业。

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This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

这个世界只是我们想象的一块画布。

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I also like Western classical music and jazz.

我也喜欢西方古典音乐和爵士乐。

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I just sing. You have to use it.

我只是唱歌。你必须使用它。

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