If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, mend the bad places of civilization, we certainly cannot do it by force.

  • -- Auberon Edward William Molyneux Herbert 奥伯伦·爱德华·威廉·莫利纽斯·赫伯特

如果我们不能通过理性、通过影响、通过榜样、通过艰苦的努力和个人的牺牲来修补文明的坏地方,我们当然不能通过武力来做到这一点。

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We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it's just a mind set, that it's just an addiction, then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success.

我们被教导要消费。这就是我们所做的。但如果我们意识到确实没有理由消费,这只是一种心态,这只是一种上瘾,那么我们就不会踩着别人的手爬上企业成功的阶梯。

It's really hard when people write nasty things about you all the time. As much as good things are said about you, it's always those one or two bad comments that really stay with you and gnaw at you. I try not to read that stuff if I can.

当人们总是写你的坏话时,真的很难。尽管别人说你的好话,但真正让你耿耿于怀、咬牙切齿的总是那一两句坏话。我尽量不去读那些东西。

I should do something about the cigarettes; I quite accept that it's bad for your health, but you know a moderate tipple is positively beneficial and, at certain times, absolutely essential.

我应该对香烟做点什么;我完全同意这对你的健康有害,但你知道适度饮酒是非常有益的,而且在某些时候是绝对必要的。

Being a member of the labor force and a full-time parent means trying to manage against overwhelming odds in an unresponsive society.

作为劳动力的一员和全职父母,意味着在一个反应迟钝的社会里,要努力克服压倒性的优势。

To recognize negativism as a force of creation is to give up the creative standpoint altogether.

承认否定主义是一种创造的力量,就等于完全放弃了创造的立场。

Reason is the servant of instinct.

理智是本能的仆人。