It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

  • -- Herman Melville 赫尔曼·梅尔维尔

创新失败总比模仿成功好。

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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

一旦人们认识到,即使是距离最近的人之间也会有无限的距离,如果他们能成功地喜欢上彼此之间的距离,使彼此能在天空中看到对方,那么,即使是在最接近的人之间,也会有无限的距离。

Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.

两种人通常在政治生活中最成功;没有原则,但有伟大才能的人;没有才能,只有一个原则——服从上级。