There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.

  • -- Thomas Paine 托马斯·潘恩

所谓思想,有两种截然不同的类型:一类是我们通过反思和思考的行为而产生于自身的思想,另一类则是我们自己的思维。

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Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people, how you argue, how secure you are in your own thoughts. How vehemently do you argue your point of view? With what disdain do you view the other's point of view?

婚姻是你生活的一个整体反映:你如何对待别人,你如何争论,你在自己的思想中有多安全。你对自己的观点争论得有多激烈?你用什么样的蔑视来看待别人的观点?

While that wasn't first and foremost in my mind, you can't get into this without being struck, on one side, by how far we've come, and then the other side, by how little things have changed.

在我看来,这并不是最重要的,你不可能不被我们所取得的进步所震撼,而在另一方面,你也不可能不被这些微小的变化所震撼。

The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.

当涉及到制造恐怖时,人类的思维受到了足够的启发;只有当它试图创造一个天堂时,它才显得土里土气。

My motivations are thinking I can write better songs, that the concerts can be better.

我的动机是我能写更好的歌,音乐会能更好。

The entertainment industry is vast and is a reflection of the society we live in.

娱乐业是一个庞大的行业,它反映了我们所生活的社会。

Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.

是否应该用善于思考的人取代善于思考的人。

The happy people are those who are producing something.

快乐的人是那些有成就的人。

We must be our own before we can be another's.

我们必须先做自己,才能成为别人的。

Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.

每匹马都认为自己驮的东西最重。

Produce great men, the rest follows.

产生伟大的人物,其余的就跟着产生。