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The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

  • -- Christopher Morley 克里斯托弗·莫利

书的真正目的是使人的思想陷入自己的思考。

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I think all actors have a similar deal. You want some people who understand. Although it looks great - and is great - there are also shoddy moments when you feel really rotten, and when it's going well, you're not allowed to complain.

我想所有演员都有类似的待遇。你需要一些理解你的人。虽然它看起来很棒——而且很棒——但也有一些糟糕的时刻，你会觉得自己真的很糟糕，当一切进展顺利时，你是不允许抱怨的。

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The developing science departs at the same time more and more from its original scope and purpose and threatens to sacrifice its earlier unity and split into diverse branches.

科学的发展同时也越来越偏离其原来的范围和目的，有可能牺牲其早期的统一性，分裂成不同的分支。

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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

少数伟大的思想足以赋予人类巨大的力量，但少数伟大的心灵不足以使我们值得使用它。

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Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.

因此，让我们温柔而仁慈地珍惜知识的手段。让我们敢于读、想、说、写。

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Books are love letters (or apologies) passed between us, adding a layer of conversation beyond our spoken words.

书是我们之间传递的情书(或道歉信)，在我们的言语之外增加了一层对话。

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The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

宣传者的目的是让一群人忘记某些人是人。

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Life would be a lot easier if conversations were rewindable and erasable, like videos.

如果对话可以像视频一样可以回放和删除，生活将会变得容易得多。

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You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

你永远找不到一杯足够大的茶或一本书足够长来适合我。

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If you don't get killed, it's a lucky day for anybody.

如果你没有被杀，这对任何人来说都是幸运的一天。

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The mind cannot foresee its own advance.

头脑无法预见自己的进步。

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