A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is less benefited than most others by any acquaintance with science.

  • -- Charles Babbage 巴贝奇

因此,对促进一项研究和对最完全占用时间的其他工作的职责的促进存在着一种强大的吸引力,而这比任何科学知识对其他工作的促进作用都要小。

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Before I finished another level of Scientology auditing, I had a very hard time with being wrong and I always had to have my own way - and not in a good sense. After auditing, I was able to have my thoughts, communicate them and not have to be right all the time.

在我完成另一个层次的山达基审核之前,我有一段非常艰难的时间来纠正错误,我总是不得不按照自己的方式去做——而且不是在一个好的意义上。在听过之后,我能够有自己的想法,并与他们交流,而不必总是正确的。

Middle age is Janus-faced. As we look back on our accomplishments and our failures to achieve the things we wanted, we look ahead to the time we have left to us. Our children are gaining life, and our parents are losing it.

中年是双面人。当我们回顾我们所取得的成就和我们在实现我们想要的东西上的失败时,我们会展望我们剩下的时间。我们的孩子正在获得生命,而我们的父母正在失去生命。

The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking.

受教育的问题在于它需要很长时间;它占用了你生活中较好的部分,当你完成工作后,你知道,如果你进入银行业,你会受益更多。

You can gain in your effectiveness as a politician from a wide acquaintance with the world and from a degree of independence that having some outside interests gives.

作为一名政治家,你可以从对世界的广泛了解和拥有一些外部利益所带来的一定程度的独立性中提高自己的效率。

It's hard to say, 'I don't believe in God.' I would love to know if God exists. But it's a very difficult thing for me to believe.

很难说,‘我不相信上帝。“我很想知道上帝是否存在。但我很难相信。

Sometimes I think fiction exists to model the way God might think of us, if God had the time and inclination to do so.

有时我认为,如果上帝有时间和意愿的话,小说的存在是为了模仿上帝对我们的看法。

The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.

仅仅是一起变老的过程就会使最轻微的相识也会成为知心朋友。

What time he can spare from the adornment of his person he devotes to the neglect of his duties.

他从打扮自己的外表上所能抽出的时间,都用来玩忽职守了。

Real-life duties eat valuable writing time.

现实生活中的工作占用了宝贵的写作时间。