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My ideas about time all developed from the realization that if nothing were to change we could not say that time passes. Change is primary, time, if it exists at all, is something we deduce from it.

  • -- Julian Barbour 朱利安·巴伯

我对时间的概念都是从这样一种认识发展而来的:如果什么都不改变，我们就不能说时间流逝了。变化是首要的，时间，如果它存在的话，是我们从中推断出来的。

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In Darwin's time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or immunity, but every biological structure and function because, ultimately, no one could explain how biological processes occurred.

在达尔文的时代，所有的生物学都是一个黑盒子:不仅是细胞，眼睛，消化，免疫，还有所有的生物结构和功能，因为最终没有人能解释生物过程是如何发生的。

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Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.

他意识到，生活就像一首歌。一开始是神秘的，最后是确定的，但正是在这中间，所有的情感都居住在这里，让整件事变得有价值。

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My passion for giving is no different than yours. I give because it's in my heart to give. I give because I was taught to give at a very early age. This is how I developed my passion for giving.

我对给予的热情和你的没有什么不同。我付出是因为我有一颗奉献的心。我给予是因为我从小就被教导给予。这就是我如何培养我对给予的热情。

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One of the primary motivations for the series is that I never really felt that I was a person who could explain verbally what I thought all that well.

这个系列的主要动机之一是，我从来没有真正觉得自己是一个能够很好地用语言解释自己想法的人。

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I was the kid who always hung back and then dropped the jokes when you least expected it. Timing was everything. My mouth sort of developed over time.

我是那种总是犹豫不前，然后在你最意想不到的时候讲笑话的孩子。时机就是一切。随着时间的推移，我的嘴开始发育。

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Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile.

大多数时候你会失败，但你也会偶尔成功。这些偶然的成功使所有的努力和牺牲都是值得的。

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There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist or accept the responsibility for changing them.

生活中有两个主要的选择:要么接受现状，要么接受改变现状的责任。

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There's no shame in enjoying a quiet life. And that's been the realization of the past few years for me.

享受平静的生活并不可耻。这就是我过去几年的体会。

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