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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

  • -- Aldous Huxley 奥尔德斯·赫胥黎

大多数人都有一种近乎无限的能力，认为一切都是理所当然的。人不能从历史的教训中学到很多东西，这是所有历史教训中最重要的一条。

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If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

如果你寻求真理，最终你会找到安慰;如果你寻求安慰，你将不会得到安慰或真相，只有软肥皂和一厢情愿的想法开始，最终，绝望。

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The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.

希腊的七位智者以他们的智慧闻名于世，他们每一个人都是通过一两三个字组成的一句话获得了所有的名望。

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Why isn't it natural for people who have lived and worked at something to want to use the knowledge and capacity in a new way, free from the burden of making a living?

为什么对于那些生活和工作过的人来说，想要以一种新的方式使用知识和能力，摆脱谋生的负担不是一件很自然的事情呢?

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I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.

我把诗意的效果定义为，文本在不被完全消耗的情况下，继续产生不同的阅读效果的能力。

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I guess they just took it for granted that that was what I was interested in and let nature take its course.

我猜他们只是想当然地认为那就是我感兴趣的，顺其自然。

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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

我们不能用创造问题时的思维来解决问题。

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If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.

如果有一种品质是所有伟人共有的，那就是虚荣。

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I don't ever take anything for granted.

我从不认为任何事情都是理所当然的。

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