There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.

  • -- Thomas Alva Edison 托马斯·阿尔瓦·爱迪生

一个人没有什么办法不去逃避思考的劳动。

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Metaphysical thinking will always no doubt be a strong element in her mentality, and it is to be hoped that she will never lose her great, her sovereign powers in that direction.

形而上学的思维无疑将永远是她的心理中的一个强有力的因素,我们希望她永远不会在这个方向上失去她的伟大的、至高无上的权力。

I have been very interested in labor movement. If I could have wished another life, I would have loved to be a pioneer woman in the beginning of labor movement.

我一直对劳工运动很感兴趣。如果我希望能有另一种生活,我愿意成为劳工运动初期的先锋女性。

The unproductive tillage of human cattle takes that which of right belongs to free labor, and which is necessary for the support and happiness of our own race.

人类对牛的不劳而获的耕作剥夺了属于自由劳动的权利,这是我们人类赖以生存和幸福所必需的。

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.

盲目信仰的模因通过阻止理性探究这一简单的无意识的权宜之计,确保了它自身的永存。

Well, acting was just in me and I tried to avoid it. I didn't want to do what my parents did, you know?

演戏是我的天性,我尽量避免演戏。我不想做我父母做的事,你知道吗?

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

如果没有想象力,一个男人在女服务员的怀抱里会像在公爵夫人的怀抱里一样幸福。

You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.

你不要问自己这样或那样做是否方便,而要问它是否正确。

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

世界上没有好坏之分,只有思想使然。

Without knowing this, no man can dress a horse perfectly.

不知道这一点,没有人能把马打扮得完美无缺。

I don't hate you, i'd just rather avoid you completely.

我不恨你,我只是想完全避开你。