We would have been happy if we could have assigned just three categories, large, medium, and small; the point is, we wanted to avoid personal judgments. It actually turned out to be quite a finely tuned scale.

  • -- Charles Francis Richter 克特

如果我们可以只分配三个类别,大、中、小,我们会很高兴;关键是,我们想避免个人判断。它实际上是一个非常精细的音阶。

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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

我宁愿承受太多自由带来的不便,也不愿承受太少自由带来的不便。

I'd rather do a really good small part than a really bad big part.

我宁愿做一件非常好的小事,也不愿做一件非常糟糕的大事。

Growing up is not being so dead-set on making everybody happy.

成长并不是要让每个人都幸福。

We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.

每天我们死。那些每天都活过来的人是幸福的。