Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other.

  • -- Eugene Field 欧仁·菲尔德

思想的产生具有爆炸性的即时性,就像一个瞬间的诞生。人类的思想就像一个巨大的钟摆;它一直从一个极端摇摆到另一个极端。

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Advertising as the printed form of selling would seem... ultimately to be justified in so far as it serves as a means of increasing legitimate human wants, as an agency of fair and economic competition in the distribution of goods, and as a stimulant to social progress.

作为印刷销售形式的广告似乎……从根本上说,这是正当的,因为它是增加人类合法需求的一种手段,是在分配商品方面进行公平和经济竞争的一种机构,是促进社会进步的一种手段。

Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.

意见就像钟摆,遵循同样的规律。如果它通过了一边的重心,另一边也必须经过同样的距离;只有过了一段时间,它才会找到真正的点,使它能保持静止。

Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us.

犯罪是人类的一个事实,仅仅是这个物种的一个事实,但它首先是秘密的一面,无法渗透和隐藏。犯罪是隐藏的,迄今为止,最可怕的事情是那些我们逃避不了的事情。

A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could.

一个好的老板会让他的员工意识到他们比自己想象的更有能力,所以他们总是能比自己想象的做得更好。

I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten.

我一直在为思想而战——直到我明白,启迪我的不是思想,而是悲伤、斗争和灵光一现。

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there.

除了错误和正确的行为之外,还有一个领域。我在那儿等你。

People rarely said what they thought, or revealed how they felt. No one was honest.

人们很少说出他们的想法,或透露他们的感受。没有人是诚实的。