Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.

  • -- Ralph Waldo Emerson 拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生

坚持自己;从不模仿。你自己的天赋,你可以用一生培养的力量,每时每刻呈现出来;但在另一个人的天赋中,你只有一种即席的、一半的占有。

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If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning.

如果我们重视独立,如果我们被我们现有体系所诱导的知识、价值观和态度的日益一致所干扰,那么我们可能希望建立学习的条件,从而形成独特性、自我指导和自主学习。

I don't never have any trouble in regulating my own conduct, but to keep other folks' straight is what bothers me.

我在规范自己的行为方面从来没有遇到过任何麻烦,但是让别人保持正直才是让我烦恼的。