Talent was not rare; the ability to survive having it was.

  • -- Neal Stephenson 尼尔·斯蒂芬森

天赋并不罕见;拥有它的生存能力。

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If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

如果文明要生存下去,我们必须培养人类关系的科学- -所有民族、所有种类的人在同一世界和平共处的能力。

That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said.

诗歌最终在它的正式机构中幸存下来,散文幸存下来,得到了表达。

You can sometimes learn more working with less talented people, because you learn to survive.

有时候,你可以从与低才能的人一起工作中学到更多,因为你要学会生存。

Our ability to measure and apportion time affords an almost endless source of comfort.

我们衡量和分配时间的能力提供了几乎无穷无尽的安慰。

It is rare that even a jazz musician finds an individual voice.

即使是爵士音乐家也很难找到自己的声音。

It was an argument of rare power and eloquence.

这是一场极具说服力的辩论。