A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
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William BlakeYou never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
你永远不知道什么是足够的，除非你知道什么是足够的。
We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.
我们把更多的精力放在帮助人们进入老年，而不是帮助他们享受老年生活。
All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
我想指出的是，生活模仿艺术远远超过艺术模仿生活的一般原则。
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
我宁愿娱乐并希望人们学到一些东西，而不是教育人们并希望他们得到娱乐。
The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
商学院奖励困难复杂的行为多于简单的行为，但简单的行为更有效。
The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.
艺术比股市或国会辩论更能反映我们这个世界正在发生的事情。
There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.
任何两个人之间的差别，都不可能比同一个人、情人和丈夫之间的差别更大。
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
我想，没有什么，甚至没有犯罪，比这种没完没了的工作更反对诗歌，更反对哲学，更反对生活本身了。
Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.
统计学家的定义:一个人相信数据不会说谎，但他承认，在分析中，有些数据也站不住脚。
Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
年老时的忠告是愚蠢的;因为，有什么比我们越接近旅程的终点，就为道路增加给养更荒唐的事呢?
Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.
商业比任何其他职业都更需要不断地与未来打交道;这是一种持续不断的计算，是对远见卓识的本能练习。
I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.
我总是惊讶于一个普通的观察者是如何给予如此多的信任和重视醒着的事情，而不是那些发生在梦里的事情……男人。是他记忆中最重要的玩物。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
I have been no more than a medium, as it were.
可以说，我只不过是一个媒介。
A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.
旁观者往往比旁观者更能判断比赛的结果。
Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.
爱情会把大象从钥匙孔里拉出来。
Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
图画破坏墙壁的次数比装饰墙壁的次数要多。