In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

  • -- Thomas Merton 托马斯·默顿

归根到底,个人要对自己的生活负责,对“发现自己”负责。如果他坚持把自己的责任转移给别人,他就不能发现自己存在的意义。

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They have the ability to take a person's freedom from them. On certain situations, they have the ability to take a person's reputation. And under certain circumstances, they have the authority to take a person's life.

他们有能力夺走一个人的自由。在某些情况下,他们有能力取得一个人的声誉。在某些情况下,他们有权取人性命。

Into this, for good or ill, is woven every belief of every man who has speech of his fellows. A awful privilege, and an awful responsibility, that we should help to create the world in which posterity will live.

无论是好是坏,每个人的每一种信仰都编织在其中,每个人都有自己的同伴。我们应该帮助创造一个子孙后代将生活的世界,这是一种可怕的特权,也是一种可怕的责任。

Really in technology, it's about the people, getting the best people, retaining them, nurturing a creative environment and helping to find a way to innovate.

在技术领域,关键是人,找到最好的人,留住他们,创造一个有创造力的环境,帮助找到创新的方法。

Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications.

尽管如此,对行为的直觉假设只是系统分析的起点,因为仅凭这些假设并不能产生很多有趣的含义。

Everything is out there if you know how to find it, and have the patience. I don't and haven't, but that's my problem.

如果你知道如何找到它,并且有耐心,一切都在那里。我没有,也没有,但这就是我的问题。

Personal responsibility is the willingness to completely accept choices that we have made throughout our life.

个人责任是愿意完全接受我们一生中所做的选择。

I am they type of person that once I make a decision, I must execute. Maybe I am a perfectionist in this way.

我是那种一旦做了决定就必须执行的人。也许在这方面我是个完美主义者。

If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.

如果你谋生,如果你自己挣钱,你就是自由的——不管这个星球上的人有多自由。

I'm not sure I can say there is a clean line between me as an individual and me as a lawyer.

我不确定我能不能说在我个人和律师之间有一条清晰的界线。

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.

公司:一种不需个人承担责任而获取利润的巧妙手段。

Analysis does not transform consciousness.

分析不能改变意识。

I like to pick my own vegetables.

我喜欢自己摘菜。