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There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

  • -- Benjamin Franklin 本杰明富兰克林

有两种幸福的方式:我们必须要么减少我们的欲望，要么增加我们的手段——任何一种都可以——结果都是一样的，这是由每个人自己决定的，做那些碰巧更容易的事情。

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People should decide 'are you willing to spend all this money to go to Mars?' I think the average person on the ground would never spend that amount of money - they have to spend it on something that makes sense and this is definitely saving our planet.

人们应该决定“你愿意花这么多钱去火星吗?”“我认为地球上的普通人永远不会花那么多钱——他们必须把钱花在有意义的事情上，这无疑是在拯救我们的地球。”

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Well I’ve just been thinking, and don’t you think it’s kind of, well, kind of vain, to decide we need to make little clones of ourselves when the worlds already pretty overpopulated. It’s just not practical and kind of greedy.

我一直在想，你不觉得这有点，嗯，有点徒劳，决定我们需要克隆我们自己，当世界已经相当人口过剩。只是不实用，有点贪心。

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Internationalism is a social and political theory, a certain concept of how human society ought to be organized, and in particular a concept of how the nations ought to organize their mutual relations.

国际主义是一种社会和政治理论，是关于人类社会应该如何组织的特定概念，特别是关于各国应该如何组织相互关系的概念。

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Many of us are alarmed at the skyrocketing cost of medical care, including patients, who are the consumers. However, medical malpractice is not the reason for these increasing costs.

我们许多人都对医疗费用的飞涨感到震惊，包括病人，他们是消费者。然而，医疗事故并不是这些费用增加的原因。

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Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

什么东西能如此优雅，以致于拥有很少的需求，并为自己服务呢?

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The successful cannot be unhappy -- it was a contradiction in terms.

成功人士不可能不快乐——这是一种矛盾。

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With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon who could not be happy?

有了自由，有了书，有了花，有了月亮，谁会不快乐呢?

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It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.

当我离开很长时间后，很难说我希望我的遗产是什么。

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If you've got nothing to dance about, find a reason to sing.

如果你没什么可跳舞的，找个理由唱歌吧。

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I'm such a happy, easygoing person.

我是一个快乐、随和的人。

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