Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things.

  • -- Robert Southey 骚塞

秩序是头脑的健全,身体的健康,城市的和平,国家的安全。秩序之于万物,犹如房屋之梁,房屋之骨。

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I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly out-of-body journeys described by those who narrowly escaped death.

我理解濒死之人的大脑会发生什么,我一直相信,对于那些死里逃生的人所描述的天堂般的灵魂出窍之旅,有很好的科学解释。

It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition.

在我看来,拒绝接受一项请愿书,或由某种一般命令直接拒绝请愿书,与拒绝请愿权之间是无法区别的。

So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.

因此,每一个创造性的行为都力求获得绝对的地位;它渴望创造一个美丽的世界,战胜混乱,使之恢复秩序。

It's really ironic that I won, because that's not the goal that I had in mind when I went out to skate.

很讽刺的是我赢了,因为这不是我出去滑冰时想要达到的目标。

Another thing that really excites me: I'd like to do multiple versions of the same film.

另一件让我兴奋的事是:我想为同一部电影制作多个版本。

Things disappear and are never found simply because there's too much ground to cover.

东西消失了,再也找不到,仅仅是因为有太多的地方要覆盖。

What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

什么是警句?一个矮小的整体。它的身体简洁,它的灵魂机智。

Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.

恨别人就像为了除掉一只老鼠而烧掉自己的房子。

I have a disease, but I also have a lot of other things.

我有一种疾病,但我也有很多其他的东西。

We adore chaos because we love to produce order.

我们喜欢混乱,因为我们喜欢创造秩序。