Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.

  • -- George D. Prentice 乔治D.普伦蒂斯

有些人用一半的聪明才智陷入债务,另一半用来逃避偿还。

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Have you heard of this new thing called the internet? It's giving people new expectations. It's allowing them to become their own expert. Knowledge lies anxious at their fingertips. Gloss over the truth in your advertising and you'll quickly be dismissed as a poser.

你听说过互联网这个新事物吗?它给人们带来了新的期望。这让他们成为自己的专家。知识焦虑地躺在他们的指尖。在你的广告中掩盖真相,你很快就会被当作装模作样的人而被解雇。

Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings.

即使整个大地和大海都变成金子,也无法满足一个女人的贪婪……用指甲刮钻石比用人类的聪明才智让一个女人同意捐出她的积蓄要容易得多。

The deeper I get into my life as a musician, I'm discovering that it becomes less and less about other people, and more about what I want to do. And that's a good place to be.

作为一名音乐家,我对自己的生活了解得越深,我发现自己对他人的关注越来越少,而对自己想做的事情的关注越来越多。那是个好地方。

Anybody who has any doubt about the ingenuity or the resourcefulness of a plumber never got a bill from one.

任何对水管工的独创性或足智多谋有任何怀疑的人,从来没有收到过水管工的账单。