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Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.

  • -- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 利希滕贝格

偏见可以说是人类的机械本能:通过他们的偏见，他们不费任何力气就做了许多事情，他们会发现很难想清楚，以至于决定去做这些事情。

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A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.

委员会的性质是有机的而不是机械的:它不是一个结构，而是一个工厂。它生根、成长、开花、枯萎、死亡，播下的种子将由其他委员会轮流开花。

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The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice

要更有效地阻止真理的发现，不是因为眼前的假象，也不是因为推理能力的弱点，而是因为先入之见和偏见

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I don't think many actors are the best judge of careers. I think generally we have good instincts about what we can do in terms of acting. And often they become directors, which I don't want to be.

我不认为很多演员是事业的最佳评判者。我认为一般来说，我们在表演方面有很好的直觉。他们经常成为导演，而我不想成为。

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To be faithful to your instincts and the impulses that carry you in the direction of the excellence you most desire and value ... surely that is to lead the noble life.

忠实于你的直觉和冲动，让你朝着你最渴望和最珍视的卓越的方向前进……当然是过高贵的生活。

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From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

从他们的经验或他人(历史)的记录经验中，人们只能学到他们的激情和形而上学的偏见允许他们学到的东西。

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If you must get rid of a roach, use mechanical control.

如果你必须摆脱蟑螂，使用机械控制。

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