A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
原因
Reason
Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
在理解中发现的才能通常是遗传的。天才很少来自理性和想象。
I wonder if the reason I tend to say yes to everything is because I deeply believe that I can survive anything.
我想知道，我之所以倾向于对每件事都说“是”，是不是因为我深信我能挺过任何事情。
I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.
我支持在任何情况下，任何理由，任何可能的情况下减税。
From now on you're going to have to think. There's a reason why we're born with brains in our heads, not rocks.
从现在起，你要开始思考了。我们生来就有大脑，而不是石头，这是有原因的。
The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time.
闪电不会两次击中同一个地方的原因是同一个地方第二次没有击中。
And that is the reason why this victory is great, because different players have made contributions to the win.
这就是这场胜利之所以伟大的原因，因为不同的球员为这场胜利做出了贡献。
To the people I forgot, you weren't on my mind for some reason and you probably don't deserve any thanks anyway.
对于那些我忘记的人，不知什么原因，你不在我的脑海里，你可能不值得任何感谢。
The fact that the climate is getting warmer doesn't scare me at all. There's no reason why one should be scared.
气候正在变暖的事实一点也没有吓到我。人们没有理由害怕。
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
大多数人的问题是，他们用希望、恐惧或愿望去思考，而不是用头脑去思考。
To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
与一个已经放弃理性的使用和权威的人争论，就像给死人用药一样。
We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.
我们来到这里都有一些特殊的原因。不要再为过去所困。成为你未来的建筑师。
They’re called shortcuts for a reason. The shorter they are, the more they usually cut. Nothing is without price.
它们被称为捷径是有原因的。他们越短，他们通常剪得越多。没有免费的东西。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.
当一个人，无论出于什么原因，有机会过一种不平凡的生活，他没有权利把它留给自己。
Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
偏见是愚人用来推理的东西。
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was and the present worse than it is.
人们发现很难快乐的原因是他们总是看到过去比过去更好，现在比过去更糟。
Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.
人们认为我是天才。我所有的天才都在于此;当我手头有一门学科时，我就深入地研究它。它日日夜夜都在我面前。我的脑子里充满了它。那么我所做的努力就是人们乐于称之为天才的成果。它是劳动和思想的果实。
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery.
在过去的四五百年里，欧洲人与非洲的接触产生了大量的文学作品，这些作品把非洲描述得非常糟糕，用非常耸人听闻的语言描述非洲人。其原因与为奴隶贸易和奴隶制辩护的需要有关。
If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.'
如果你必须用一个词来说明人类没有实现、也永远不会实现其全部潜力的原因，那么这个词就是“会议”。