The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.

  • -- Thomas Robert Malthus 马尔萨斯

如果不产生痛苦或罪恶,就不能制止人口的优越力量。

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I said I didn't want to spend most of my life in Holidays Inns, but I've checked and they've all been redecorated. They're marvelous places to stay and I've thought it over and that's where I'd like to be.

我说过我不想在假日旅馆里度过我的大半生,但是我检查过了,它们都重新装修过了。他们是很棒的地方,我想过了,那是我想去的地方。

When the headache persisted, I checked myself into an emergency room. When the doctor used the term 'brain tumour', I feared the worst. My whole world shrank around me.

头痛持续时,我住进了急诊室。当医生用“脑瘤”这个词时,我担心的是最坏的情况。我的整个世界都缩小了。

Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.

事实上,朋友喜欢痛苦。有时候,尤其当我们太幸运、太成功或太漂亮时,我们的不幸是唯一能让我们赢得朋友喜爱的东西。

Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.

人们很少(如果有的话)能梦想出一个比自己优越的神。大多数神都有被宠坏的孩子的举止和道德。

I don't want to say work is who I am, but some people feel more centered and more whole when they're producing and creating.

我不想说工作就是我,但有些人在生产和创造的时候会觉得更有中心,更完整。

I wouldn't mind producing a movie with a music storyline, but acting in one is too close to home.

我不介意制作一部带有音乐故事情节的电影,但在其中表演离我家太近了。

Accordingly, one race is neither superior nor inferior to another.

因此,一个种族并不比另一个种族优越或低劣。

There is winning and there is misery.

有胜利,也有痛苦。