The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.

-- Alan Wilson Watts 艾伦·威尔逊·沃茨

我们的文化和常识背后的神话并没有教会我们与宇宙有相同的感觉，而只是宇宙的一部分，只是其中的一部分，只是面对它——外星人。

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I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

我认为，对我们国家和文明的未来来说，没有什么比充分认识艺术家的地位更重要的了。如果艺术要滋养我们文化的根基，社会必须让艺术家自由地追随他的愿景，无论它把他带到哪里。

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My parents were very poor, but we never felt any sense of need or want. It was a very close, loving, tightly-knit family growing up, and I never felt any sense of deprivation or anything like that.

我的父母很穷，但我们从未感到任何需要或匮乏。那是一个非常亲密、充满爱、关系紧密的家庭，我从来没有感到过任何被剥夺的感觉。

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I feel like science fiction can get a bad rap sometimes because people make something just to throw an alien in it or just to make it weird, and it doesn't really have a story.

我觉得科幻小说有时会有不好的名声，因为人们做一些东西只是为了把外星人扔进去，或者只是为了让它看起来很奇怪，而它并没有真正的故事。

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I was a camp counselor for kids whose moms were on welfare, unfortunately, and right across the camp was the best, most pristine and preppy camp in the universe.

不幸的是，我曾是一名夏令营顾问，为那些母亲靠救济生活的孩子们提供帮助。

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Higher education is confronting challenges, like the economy is, about the need for a higher number of more adequately trained, more highly educated citizenry.

高等教育正面临着与经济一样的挑战，即需要更多训练有素、受教育程度更高的公民。

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Defense contractors are able to reap tremendous profits while rarely confronting the risks for which those profits are supposed to be the reward.

国防承包商能够获得巨大的利润，但却很少面临这些利润本应作为回报的风险。

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I am not that concerned that innovation in some large scale sense will suddenly and abruptly shift from one part of the world to another.

我并不担心某种大规模的创新会突然从世界的一个地方转移到另一个地方。

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The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.

理想与美丽是一致的;理想对应于理想，美对应于形式;因此理念与实体是同源的。

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My dad always taught me to never be satisfied, to want more and know that what is done is done.

我的父亲总是教导我永远不要满足，要想要更多，要知道已经做的事情已经做了。

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Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.

听着:不管我们知不知道，我们的文化充满了讽刺。

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Thinking of the universe as a computer is controversial.

把宇宙看作一台计算机是有争议的。

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I had a fantastic mother who taught me self-confidence.

我有一位了不起的母亲，她教会了我自信。

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I am a human being; nothing human can be alien to me.

我是一个人;人类对我来说没有什么是陌生的。

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No two wars are identical.

没有两场战争是相同的。

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The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.

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