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The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare.

  • -- Edward Thorndike 桑代克

智力的作用是提供一种方法来改变我们对生活环境的反应，使我们能够获得快乐，这是幸福的征兆。

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Theater publicly reveals the human condition through appealing to both intellect and emotion. Architecture, whether lowly or exalted, can do the same.

戏剧通过对智力和情感的诉求，公开地揭示了人类的处境。建筑，无论地位高低，都可以做到这一点。

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I prefer my body after I've had kids to before. I like a womanly, shapely figure. I'm more secure as a woman. I know who I am.

和以前相比，我更喜欢有了孩子后的身体。我喜欢有女人味的、匀称的身材。作为一个女人，我更有安全感。我知道我是谁。

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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

我从来不想看到任何人死去，但我愉快地读到一些讣告。

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The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.

我们喜欢和欣赏的电影在某种程度上是我们看电影时的真实自我的体现。

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One of the deepest functions of a living organisms is to look ahead... to produce future.

生物体最深层的功能之一就是向前看……生产的未来。

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The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure.

使自己快乐的真正方法是热爱我们的工作，并从中找到乐趣。

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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

思想是智力的劳动，幻想是其乐趣。

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My kids are pretty secure, bright, and know who they are.

我的孩子们很安全，聪明，知道自己是谁。

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