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Why has not anyone seen that fossils alone gave birth to a theory about the formation of the earth, that without them, no one would have ever dreamed that there were successive epochs in the formation of the globe.

  • -- Georges Cuvier 乔治·居维叶

为什么没有人看到化石本身就产生了一种关于地球形成的理论呢?如果没有化石，没有人会想到地球的形成会有连续的时代。

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If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

如果一个人每天有一半的时间是为了爱他们而在树林里散步，那么他就有可能被认为是一个游手好闲的人。但如果他把自己的时间花在投机上，在她之前砍掉那些树木，让地球光秃秃的，他就被认为是一个勤奋进取的公民。

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There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

很少有人能从瞬间的光照中获得完整而惊人的真理。他们中的大多数人都是通过细胞的连续发展，在小范围内，一个片段一个片段地获得它，就像一个费力的马赛克。

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I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge. It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.

生命的稳定，地球的不变使我感到安慰。在知识的发展过程中，似乎是新鲜而可怕的东西占据了一席之地。了解我们的宇宙是件好事。新事物对我们来说只是新事物。

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The metropolis reveals itself as one of those great historical formations in which opposing streams which enclose life unfold, as well as join one another with equal right.

大都市展现了自己作为一个伟大的历史形成，在其中对立的溪流包围着生活展开，并以平等的权利连接在一起。

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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.

拖延症是最常见和最致命的疾病之一，它对成功和幸福的影响是巨大的。

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Behind most Afghan girls who succeed is a father who recognizes that her success is his success.

在大多数成功的阿富汗女孩的背后，是一个父亲，他知道她的成功就是他的成功。

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A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

一个人的成长可以从他朋友连续不断的唱诗班中看到。

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