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There was nothing noble-minded men could not do when they discovered they could slap time on their wrists just like that.

  • -- Jamaica Kincaid 牙买加·琴凯德

当高尚的人发现他们可以这样打发时间时，没有什么是做不到的。

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You know that feeling when you finish a final exam and you think, 'I never want to do that again'? Well I have the same feeling when I finish a novel. Each time I say, 'I think I may retire now' and then after six months the ideas start to churn again. I could never stop.

你知道那种感觉吗?当你期末考试结束时，你想，‘我再也不想做那样的事了’?当我读完一本小说时，我也有同样的感觉。每次我说“我想我现在可以退休了”，六个月后，我的想法又开始翻腾起来。我停不下来。

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Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

有一天，在掌握了风、浪、潮汐和重力之后，我们将为上帝驾驭爱的能量，然后，人类将在世界历史上第二次发现火。

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To conceive the good, in fact, is not sufficient; it must be made to succeed among men. To accomplish this less pure paths must be followed.

事实上，仅仅有好的想法是不够的;它必须在人类中获得成功。要实现这一点，必须遵循不那么纯粹的道路。

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I've made this statement many times: If I would have to do it over again, I would have made known the forthcoming Tet Offensive.

我已经说过很多次了:如果我必须重新来过，我一定会让大家知道即将到来的春节攻势。

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One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.

一个人只能在某一方面成为兄弟。在没有束缚人们的纽带的地方，人们不团结，而只是站成一排。

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We've discovered that the less we do, the more money we make.

我们发现，我们做的越少，赚的钱就越多。

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