You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.

  • -- Marie Curie 居里夫人

如果不改进个人,就不可能建设一个更美好的世界。为此目的,我们每个人都必须为自己的进步而努力,同时对全人类负有共同的责任,我们的特别责任是帮助我们认为最有用的人。

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In should be the duty of every soldier to reflect on the experiences of the past, in the endeavor to discover improvements, in his particular sphere of action, which are practicable in the immediate future.

每一个士兵都有责任反思过去的经验,努力在自己的行动领域内发现在不久的将来切实可行的改进之处。

You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.

你必须避免把财富当人质,比如娶一个昂贵的妻子、一栋昂贵的房子,以及一种永远不会让你有时间去写你想写什么的生活方式。

That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen.

穷人是隐形的,这是他们最重要的一点。它们不像旧的改革辞令那样简单地被忽视和遗忘;更糟的是,他们没有被看到。

Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb was.

每当你认为电视行业已经陷入低谷时,一个新的节目就会出现,让你想知道自己的低谷在哪里。

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives to his life by the unfolding of his powers, by living productively.

生命没有任何意义,只有人类通过展现自己的能力,通过富有成效的生活赋予生命的意义。

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

一个人要学他自以为已经知道的东西是不可能的。

There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.

责任中有快乐,尽管它可能看起来并不快乐。

Self-reform is the only kind that works.

自我改革是唯一有效的方法。