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The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

  • -- Arthur C. Clarke 亚瑟·C·克拉克

衡量一个人是否诚实的最好标准不是他的所得税申报表。这是他浴室磅秤上的零点调整。

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The best way to conduct research on a larger scale is to make sure everyone knows what everyone else is doing... The sooner the better - start talking to other people about what you're doing. Because that's what will stimulate things the fastest.

进行大规模研究的最好方法是确保每个人都知道其他人在做什么……越快越好——开始和别人谈论你正在做的事情。因为这是最快的刺激。

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The natural capital is not income, but we spend our natural capital as if it were revenue, as if it were going to come back next year without any problems, whereas these renewals in nature can take hundreds of years.

自然资本不是收入，但我们把自然资本当作收入来使用，就好像它明年会毫无问题地回来一样，而这些自然资本的更新可能需要数百年的时间。

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But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan for stopping it. Everyone tried to get out of its way.

但是随着冰川的缓慢威胁，萧条开始了。没有人知道它的进展;没有人有任何阻止它的计划。每个人都想让开。

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Learn to adjust yourself to the conditions you have to endure, but make a point of trying to alter or correct conditions so that they are most favorable to you.

学会让自己适应你必须忍受的环境，但要注意改变或纠正环境，使它们对你最有利。

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For once you have tasted flight, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards for there you have been and there you will long to return.

因为你们尝过飞行的滋味，就必在地上行走，举目向天，因为你们曾在那里，也必盼望归回。

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If it’s zero degrees outside today and it’s supposed to be twice as cold tomorrow, how cold is it going to be?

如果今天外面是零度，明天应该是现在的两倍冷，那么明天会有多冷呢?

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In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop.

在一所有小孩子的房子里，浴室很快就呈现出老古玩店的样子。

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Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the gotta have it scale.

钱不是生活中最重要的东西，但它与氧气相当接近。

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As soon as he hit it, I thought I had it. But I lost it when it went into the lights. I did my best.

他一击中，我就以为我打中了。但我把它丢在灯里了。我尽力了。

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Relationships are investments... If you put nothing into them, you'll get nothing in return.

关系是投资……如果你不付出任何东西，你将得不到任何回报。

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Just for today: zero complaining+zero excusing+zero blaming+zero procrastinating.

就在今天:零抱怨+零借口+零责备+零拖延。

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Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.

不要在意他们对你的评价。用英寸来测量。

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I can live without you but without you i'll be miserable at best.

我可以没有你，但没有你，我最多只能活得很痛苦。

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Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.

人死必受咒诅。他所行的恶，必存活。

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That's the biggest problem, is the tax code itself.

最大的问题在于税法本身。

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The rich aren't like us, they pay less taxes.

富人不像我们，他们交的税少。

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Every man dies. Not every man really lives.

每个人都会死。不是每个人都有真正的生活。

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