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I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

  • -- Thomas Carlyle 托马斯·卡莱尔

我越来越尊重事实，越来越不尊重理论。在我看来，事实是一件伟大的事情;一个句子，如果不是上帝印的，那么至少是魔鬼印的。

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Having photographed the landscape for a number of years and specifically working with trees and in the forest I found, without consciously thinking about it, that it was a great learning experience for me in terms of organizing elements.

多年来，我一直在拍摄这片风景，特别是与树木和森林打交道，我发现，在不自觉地思考它的情况下，就组织元素而言，这对我来说是一次很棒的学习经历。

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I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

我经常希望……我可以摆脱事实的暴政。除了妥协，什么是事实?一个事实仅仅标志着我们已同意停止调查。

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I've opened up more by traveling outside Jamaica. It helps me to grow as a person to be outside of my element; to be on my own in a strange place meeting people.

在牙买加之外的旅行让我更加开放。它帮助我成长为一个不属于我的元素的人;一个人在一个陌生的地方遇见别人。

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The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television.

生活的事实是，一个看过战争的孩子无法与一个除了从电视上知道战争是什么的孩子相比。

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We are full of bread and gas, getting fat on the outside while inside we grow thin.

我们充满了面包和汽油，外面变胖，里面变瘦。

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The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

成功的最大秘诀是像一个永不疲倦的人一样度过一生。

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No one can appropriate God, goodness, the Bible or Jesus. It just seems that way.

没有人能盗用神、良善、圣经或耶稣。似乎就是这样。

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When a leopard dies, he leaves his coat. When a man dies, he leaves his name.

豹子死后，会留下外套。当一个人死了，他留下他的名字。

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I don't know what happens to me on stage. Something else seems to take over.

我不知道我在舞台上发生了什么。另一件事似乎占据了上风。

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Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.

尊严不在于拥有荣誉，而在于应得荣誉。

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It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it.

战争如此可怕是件好事，否则我们可能会逐渐喜欢它。

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The poor man's corm always grows thin.

穷人的球茎总是变薄。

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