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Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

  • -- Henry David Thoreau 亨利·大卫·梭罗

我们的发明往往是漂亮的玩具，分散我们的注意力从严肃的事情。它们只是改进的手段，以达到未改进的目的。

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My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general; if you become a monk, you'll end up as the Pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

妈妈对我说:“如果你成为一名士兵，你就会成为一名将军;如果你成为一名僧侣，你最终会成为教皇。”相反，我成了一名画家，最后成了毕加索。

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Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broke in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them.

世俗的财富就像坚果;许多牙齿在咬碎它们的过程中折断了，但胃里却从来没有吃过它们。

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To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.

因此，被某人完全看见，并且无论如何被爱——这是一种近乎奇迹的人类奉献。

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I realized that in some unspoken, still tentative way, she and I were already becoming a family.

我意识到，她和我已经以某种无声的、试探性的方式成为了一家人。

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That's the thing you learn about values: they're what people make up to justify what they did.

这就是你学到的关于价值观的东西:价值观是人们为了证明他们所做的事情而编造出来的。

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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.

对于那些富有的人来说，没有什么比想象别人是如何陷入贫困更困难的了。

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Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.

人道主义就是决不为某种目的而牺牲一个人。

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Analyses of others are actually expressions of our own needs and values.

对他人的分析实际上是我们自己需求和价值观的表达。

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