Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.

  • -- Paulo Coelho 保罗·柯艾略

每件事发生一次就不会再发生。但凡是发生两次的事,必定会发生第三次。

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Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction.

当然,如果知识是有价值的,那么在一个远比托斯卡纳富裕的国家里,允许像道尔顿这样的天才从事基础教育的苦差事,绝不可能是一个好的政策。

I could not count the times during the average day when something would come up that I needed to tell him, ... This impulse did not end with his death. What ended was the possibility of response.

我数不清在平常的日子里有多少次我需要告诉他一些事情,……这种冲动并没有随着他的死亡而结束。最后的结果是有可能作出反应。

To be smart on crime, we should not be in a position of constantly reacting to crime after it happens. We should be looking at preventing crime before it happens.

要明智地对待犯罪,我们不应该在犯罪发生后不断地做出反应。我们应该在犯罪发生之前预防犯罪。

One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.

可以肯定地说,佛教传统,作为一个整体,代表了任何文明所产生的最丰富的冥想智慧的来源。

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

告诉你的心,对痛苦的恐惧比痛苦本身更可怕。没有一颗心在追求梦想的过程中受过痛苦。

Every time I think about writing, comedy doesn't interest me in the slightest. I can play comedy, but I don't think in terms of comic dialogue.

每次我想到写作,我对喜剧一点也不感兴趣。我能演喜剧,但我不喜欢喜剧对话。

And so, as generally happens, those who have most give least, and those with less somehow make shrift to share.

因此,通常情况下,那些付出最多的人付出最少,而那些付出较少的人却以某种方式对他人不理不睬。

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

炼金术士在寻找金子的过程中发现了许多其他更有价值的东西。