It's a little bit like my inability to read a guide book before I go anywhere. I can read it after I've been there and by the same logic I refuse to accept any technical stunts from anybody. I refused to learn more than I knew and I confess I missed a great deal.

  • -- Ben Shahn 本·沙恩

这有点像我在去任何地方之前都不能读一本导游书。我去过之后就能看懂,同样的道理,我拒绝接受任何人的任何技术特技。我拒绝学得比我知道的更多,我承认我错过了很多。

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The gradual decline of a society is often a self-induced process of trying to meet ever-expanding appetites, rather than a physical inability to produce past levels of food and fuel, or to maintain adequate defense.

一个社会的逐渐衰落往往是一个自我诱导的过程,试图满足不断增长的食欲,而不是身体上无法生产过去水平的食物和燃料,或维持足够的防御。

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

人与人之间没有什么差别,但这小小的差别却能造成很大的差别。这小小的差别就是态度。最大的区别在于它是积极的还是消极的。

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

一个人存在的每一刻都是在成长或后退。一个人总是活得多一点或死得少一点。

An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.

不能驾驭语言和愚蠢不是一回事。