The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.

  • -- Thomas Jefferson 托马斯·杰斐逊

造物主认为不应该在额头上标记出那些有能力成为优秀将军的人。因此,我们首先要蒙住他们的眼睛,然后让他们以巨大的损失为代价来学习交易。

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The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I've had to learn a little bit about it. It's not rocket science: You get ratings, that's good.

无线电业务中我最不感兴趣的是无线电业务。但是我已经学了一点。这不是火箭科学:你得到评级,这很好。

I haven't had that one great love, which is good. I don't want that to be in the past - I want it to be in the future.

我还没有经历过一场伟大的爱情,这是件好事。我不希望它发生在过去——我希望它发生在未来。

Television should be kept in its proper place - beside us, before us, but never between us and the larger life.

电视应该放在适当的位置——在我们身边,在我们面前,但绝不应该放在我们和更大的生活之间。

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

在每天的某个时刻,通过阅读、聆听和观看伟大的作品来寻求崇高。

But what we all have to learn is that we can't do everything ourselves.

但我们都必须知道,我们不能自己做所有的事情。

Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish.

鹦鹉是很好的宠物。它们比金鱼更有个性。

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

我们所寻求的,我们必寻见;我们逃避的东西也会逃避我们。

In a good book the best is between the lines.

一本好书,最好的是字里行间。

I like things in their proper places.

我喜欢东西放在合适的地方。

No bad man can be a good poet.

没有坏人能成为好诗人。