When the pressure comes, preferences give way while convictions hold firm.

  • -- Edwin Louis Cole 埃德温·路易斯·科尔

当压力来临时,偏好让步,而信念坚定。

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Absolute certainty is not something I strive for anymore. I've learned the hard way that destiny usually looks upon our most strident convictions with amusement, or perhaps even pity.

我不再追求绝对的确定性。我从惨痛的经历中认识到,命运总是以一种有趣的、甚至是怜悯的眼光看待我们最刺耳的信念。

That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.

我毫不怀疑,这个地方的大多数废奴主义者会优先光顾一家免费的劳工商店;但我们没有在辛辛那提筹集资金。

No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.

对于那些即将步入人生舞台的人来说,最重要的责任莫过于忠实于自己的信念。

I don't really believe in the type of pressure that people are wanting to put on the type of music that I make.

我不相信人们对我所创作的音乐施加的压力。

I never say I have a preference for one medium as opposed to another.

我从来没有说过我偏爱一种媒介而不是另一种。

No, I don't tolerate pressure from anyone about anything.

不,我不能忍受来自任何人的任何压力。