In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.

  • -- Christian Nestell Bovee 克里斯蒂安·内斯特尔·博维

野心和爱情一样,成功的人可以宽容他们的对手。这是我们自己的奖赏,它是优雅地承认的优点,徒劳地追求它。

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The social sciences, I thought, needed the same kind of rigor and the same mathematical underpinnings that had made the "hard" sciences so brilliantly successful.

我认为,社会科学需要同样的严谨,同样的数学基础,正是这些基础让“硬”科学取得了如此辉煌的成功。

He who aspires to paradise should learn to deal with people with kindness.

立志上天堂的人应该学会与人为善。

It is out of your imagination that the seeds of your success are sown.

成功的种子是你想象不到的。

Striking out Ruth and Gehrig in succession was too big an order.

接连淘汰露丝和格里格实在是太过分了。

I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron.

我认为成功的治疗是一种矛盾修饰法。

Wisdom ain't a virtue I ever aspired to.

智慧不是我所追求的美德。