It is odd how learned persons fail to see that new terms and definitions are apt to mean new doubts and litigation.

  • -- Frederick Pollock 波洛克

奇怪的是,有学问的人竟没有认识到,新的术语和定义往往意味着新的怀疑和诉讼。

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It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality above idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their direction, and he awakens them.

总而言之或总而言之,可能性总是相同的,它们不断地重复着,直到一个不把现实看得比思想更重要的人出现为止。他首先赋予新的可能性以意义和方向,然后唤醒它们。

Your candor is worth everything to your cause. It is refreshing to find a person with a new theory who frankly confesses that he finds difficulties, insurmountable, at least for the present.

对你的事业来说,你的坦诚是值得的。找到一个拥有新理论的人,坦率地承认他发现了困难,无法克服,至少目前是这样,这令人耳目一新。

I think the hardest part of writing is revising. And by that I mean the following: A novelist has to create the piece of marble and then chip away to find the figure in it.

我认为写作最难的部分是修改。我的意思是这样的:小说家必须先创作出一块大理石,然后再把它凿开,才能找到大理石中的人物。

I learned easily and had time to follow my inclination for sports (light athletics and skiing) and chemistry, which I taught myself by reading all textbooks I could get.

我学得很轻松,有时间跟随自己对运动(轻型运动和滑雪)和化学的爱好,我通过阅读所有能找到的教科书自学。

An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate.

一个没有受过教育的人,知道如何默想上帝,比一个受过高等教育的人,不知道如何默想,学到的要多得多。

We've begun to put fear into those whites who think they can do anything they want to a black person and get away with it.

我们已经开始让那些白人感到恐惧,他们认为他们可以对一个黑人做任何他们想做的事,然后逍遥法外。

Sometimes it's better to keep it all inside, where the only person that could judge is yourself.

有时候把一切都藏在心里会更好,因为只有你自己才能做出判断。

Trends don't mean very much.

趋势并不意味着什么。