People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.

  • -- Malcolm Muggeridge 蒙格瑞奇

人们不相信谎言,不是因为他们不得不相信,而是因为他们想要相信。

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I still like to keep tapes of the few minutes before the final take, things that happen before the session. Maybe it's superstitious, but I believe if I had done things differently - if I had walked around the studio or gone out - it wouldn't have turned out that way.

我仍然喜欢在期末考试前的几分钟录下来,也就是在考试前发生的事情。也许这是迷信的说法,但我相信如果我做的事情不同——如果我在演播室里走来走去或者走出去——结果就不会是那样。

In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts.

同样地,如果我在没有充分证据的情况下让自己相信任何事情,那么仅仅相信一件事也许并没有什么大的害处;也许这是真的,也许我永远没有机会在外表上表现出来。