If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?

  • -- Thomas a Kempis 金碧士

如果你不能完全按照自己的意愿塑造自己,你怎么能指望别人完全符合你的喜好呢?

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The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it's a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other, who want the other to respect them. Battles over status can be even more intractable than those over land or water or oil.

阿以冲突在很多方面也是一场关于地位的冲突:这是两国人民之间的战争,他们深感对方的羞辱,希望对方尊重他们。地位之争可能比土地、水或石油之争更加棘手。

We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

我们一定会失败……但失败时要以一种学习的姿态,下定决心不重蹈覆辙,并最大限度地从学习过程中获益。

If you're keeping yourself in the bubble and only looking at your own data or only watching the TV that fits your agenda then it gets boring.

如果你把自己困在泡泡里,只看自己的数据,或者只看符合你日程安排的电视,那就太无聊了。

I don't want any man I can run over. What I love about a man in control is it allows them to be the kings that I always expect them to be.

我不想让任何人被我碾过。我喜欢一个能掌控一切的男人,因为他能让他们成为我一直期待的国王。

Around people I don't know, I'm totally at a loss.

和不认识的人在一起,我完全不知所措。

Better blow hard than burn yourself.

与其烧伤自己,不如用力吹。