It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

  • -- John Steinbeck 约翰·斯坦贝克

在我看来,如果你或我必须在两种思想或行动之间做出选择,我们应该记住我们的死亡,并努力活着,使我们的死亡不会给世界带来快乐。

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If noble death be virtue's chiefest part, We above all men are by Fortune blest, Striving with freedom's crown to honor Greece, we died, and here in endless glory rest.

如果崇高的死亡是美德的最主要部分,那么我们比所有人都更幸运,我们带着自由的皇冠为希腊而奋斗,我们死了,在无尽的荣耀中安息。

The difference between management and administration (which is what bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity.

管理和行政之间的区别(这是官员们过去专门做的事情)是选择和僵化之间的区别。

I was never that much a focus of interest in my career. I'm aware of that now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.

在我的职业生涯中,我从来没有像现在这样成为人们关注的焦点。我现在意识到了这一点,但这并没有给我带来多少快乐。

I was living in Woodstock for a long time, and I thought, I got to get out of here, man.

我在伍德斯托克住了很长时间,我想,我必须离开这里,伙计。

It's your life. Live it with people who are alive. It tends to be contagious.

这是你的生活。和活着的人一起生活。它具有传染性。

There is always a choice, even if the alternatives don't appear to be equal.

总有一个选择,即使这些选择看起来不相等。

A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

蠢人放出快乐,然后抱怨道德消化不良。

To die will be an awfully big adventure.

死亡将是一场非常大的冒险。