You can meet a young person who goes to school and is really enthusiastic, but if a sufficiently strong personality convinces them that this is a waste of time, that person might flunk out.

  • -- Stanley Crouch 斯坦利·克劳奇

你可能会遇到一个去上学的年轻人,他真的很热情,但如果一个足够强的个性让他们相信这是浪费时间,那么这个人可能会退学。

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Now everybody's got a crazy notion of their own. Some like to mix up with a crowd, some like to be alone. It's no one elses' business as far as I can see, but every time that I go out the people stare at me, with me little ukulele in me hand.

现在每个人都有自己的疯狂想法。有些人喜欢和一群人混在一起,有些人喜欢独处。据我所知,这不关别人的事,但每次我出门,人们都盯着我看,手里拿着小尤克里里琴。

I just see too many people retire and say, 'I'm going to take off, travel, spend time with my family' and they are just miserable. They end up dying. People who work and stay active, and like what they are doing, live longer.

我只是看到太多的人退休后说,‘我要离开,去旅行,花时间和我的家人在一起’,他们都很痛苦。他们最后都死了。工作积极,喜欢自己所做的事情的人寿命更长。

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

错误地把悖论当作发现,把暗喻当作证明,把滔滔不绝的空话当作真理的源泉,把自己当作神谕,这些都是我们与生俱来的愚蠢。

We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.

我们可以克服重力,但有时文书工作太繁重了。