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Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.

  • -- Thomas Alva Edison 托马斯·阿尔瓦·爱迪生

浪费比损失更糟糕。每一个自称有能力的人都会把浪费的问题不断地摆在面前，这一时刻即将来临。节俭的范围是无限的。

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But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.

但我认为更多的是当你年轻的时候，你是不可战胜的，你是不朽的——或者至少你认为你是不朽的。可能性是无限的，你在创造未来。然后你变老，突然你有了一段历史。它是固定的。你不能改变任何事情。说实话，我觉得这有点令人不安。

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The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized systems in general or for those created by man in particular.

但是，恢复秩序作为一项普遍原则，同时也表明，秩序本身并不足以说明一般有组织的系统的性质，或特别是人类创造的系统的性质。

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My grandfather on one side was trained as a cabinetmaker but eventually worked as a coachbuilder and then built cars. I inherited from him a love of cars, but with no technical ability whatsoever, sadly!

我的祖父曾是一名家具制造商，但最终成为一名马车制造商，然后制造汽车。我从他那里继承了对汽车的热爱，但遗憾的是，我没有任何技术能力!

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The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.

艺术家的世界是无限的。它可以在任何地方找到，远离他住的地方或几英尺远。它总是在他的门阶上。

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Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.

我们一时的困难必须以某种方式加以解决，但是我们永久的困难是每时每刻的困难。

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You have to look out for becoming trapped in a place where people want to see you all the time doing one thing.

你必须小心被困在一个地方，在那里人们总是想看到你做一件事。

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If someone lacked decency or respect, I didn't allow that person to stay in my world.

如果有人缺乏尊严或尊重，我不允许他留在我的世界里。

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The thing is, we're all really the same person. We're just four parts of the one.

问题是，我们都是同一个人。我们只是一个整体的四个部分。

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Tact: the ability to tell a man he's open-minded when he has a hole in his head.

机智:当一个男人脑袋上有个洞的时候，告诉他他思想开放的能力。

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Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.

每匹马都认为自己驮的东西最重。

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