The future will be determined in part by happenings that it is impossible to foresee; it will also be influenced by trends that are now existent and observable.

  • -- Emily Greene Balch 鲍尔奇

未来将部分由无法预见的事情决定;它还将受到目前存在和可以观察到的趋势的影响。

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When I told my mother that I wanted to be an actress, she said, you can't live here and do that, and so I moved out. I was determined to prove her wrong because she was so sure that I was going to go astray. And that's the juice that kept me going.

当我告诉我妈妈我想成为一名演员时,她说,你不能住在这里做那些事,所以我搬了出去。我决心要证明她是错的,因为她那么肯定我会误入歧途。这就是我的动力。

I'm an inventor. I became interested in long-term trends because an invention has to make sense in the world in which it is finished, not the world in which it is started.

我是一个发明家。我之所以对长期趋势感兴趣,是因为一项发明必须在它完成的地方有意义,而不是在它开始的地方。

Experience has ceded to a series of happenings, about which the most we can expect is information.

经验已经让位给一系列的事件,而关于这些事件,我们最多能期待的就是信息。

Today I began the novel that I determined to be great.

今天我开始了我决心要成为伟大的小说。