We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.

  • -- Marian Wright Edelman 玛丽安赖特埃德尔曼

在试图思考我们如何才能做出巨大的改变时,我们决不能忽视我们每天可以做出的微小改变。随着时间的推移,这些微小的改变累积成我们常常无法预见的巨大变化。

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Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.

不要把生命浪费在怀疑和恐惧中;把你自己花在你面前的工作上,充分肯定正确地履行这一小时的职责将是为随后的几个小时和几岁做好的最好准备。

I still go to a salon where a gal does my hair, and I don't know if it's because I'm a celebrity but by the time I leave there, we are eating chicken and talking and screaming.

我仍然会去沙龙,那里有个女孩给我做头发,我不知道是不是因为我是名人,但当我离开那里的时候,我们正在吃鸡肉,聊天,尖叫。

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

我们的发明往往是漂亮的玩具,分散我们的注意力从严肃的事情。它们只是改进的手段,以达到未改进的目的。

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine; but lost time is gone forever.

失去的财富可以用勤奋来弥补,失去的知识可以用学习来弥补,失去的健康可以用节制或药物来弥补;但是失去的时间已经一去不复返了。

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

通过否定科学原理,人们可以维持任何悖论。

Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.

生命是怀疑,没有怀疑的信心不过是死亡。