We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.

  • -- J. B. S. Haldane 约翰·伯顿·桑德森·霍尔丹

在大多数情况下,我们不知道社会上的失败和成功在多大程度上是由遗传造成的,又在多大程度上是由环境造成的。但是环境是两者中比较容易改善的。

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If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember also that you are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.

如果你成功了,那是因为在某个地方,某个时候,有人给了你一个生命或一个想法,让你朝着正确的方向前进。也要记住,如果你没有像别人帮助你一样帮助那些不幸的人,你是欠生活的。

The choice of personnel, perhaps the most important choice (because 'people are policy'), never proceeds according to plan, but there have been some successful transitions that upheld high standards.

人员的选择,也许是最重要的选择(因为“人就是政策”),从来不会按照计划进行,但也有一些成功的过渡支持高标准。