When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it is best to let him run.

  • -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 朗费罗

当你抓住一头大象的后腿,它试图逃跑时,最好让它跑。

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Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will-to-action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.

有些人把接受和冷漠混淆了,但世界上有很大的不同。冷漠无法区分什么能做,什么不能做;接受决定了这种区别。冷漠麻痹了行动的意愿;接受可以让你从不可能的负担中解脱出来。

Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.

试着去猜测(大众)观众想要什么,然后又试着去满足他们的需求,这通常不是得到好东西的好方法。

I want to warn against the Fifth Column which is trying to hinder our free way of life in Holland.

我想对第五纵队提出警告,它试图阻碍我们在荷兰的自由生活方式。

I have accepted all and I am free. The inner chains are broken, as well as those outside.

我接受了一切,我自由了。内链和外链都被打破了。