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Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

  • -- Horace Walpole 霍勒斯·沃波尔

人往往能做比他们所做的更伟大的事情——他们被送到这个世界上的时候，身上带着信用的票据，却很少能充分发挥。

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I'm drawn to the classic antihero, the guy who's probably made a bunch of mistakes and really has the capacity to go either way. That's the most interesting type of character for me to watch, to see what decisions they'll make. There's a lot of gray area there for a writer to explore.

我被一个典型的反英雄人物所吸引，这个人可能犯了很多错误，但他真的有能力选择其中一种。对我来说，这是最有趣的角色类型，看看他们会做出什么样的决定。对于作家来说，有很多灰色地带有待探索。

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Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the "naturals," the ones who somehow know how to teach.

教学是人类唯一的主要职业，我们还没有开发出工具，使一个普通人有能力和表现。在教学中，我们依赖于“自然主义者”，那些不知何故知道如何教学的人。

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So, if I give any credit, besides giving all credit to God, for being totally healthy, it's just my workout and how much torture I put my body through in the offseason.

所以，如果我把所有的功劳归于上帝，除了把所有的功劳归于完全健康之外，那也只是我的锻炼和我在休赛期给自己身体带来的折磨。

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Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.

出于道德目的，我在自然界中看不到任何痕迹。那是一件完全由人工制造的物品，非常值得我们赞赏。

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Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game.

国际象棋是如此鼓舞人心，我不相信一个好的棋手能够在比赛中有一个邪恶的想法。

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Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.

完美的勇气在于，在没有证人的情况下，我们能够在所有人面前做到的事情。

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