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决定
Decide
At a point in every person's life, one has to look deeply into the mirror of one's soul and decide one's unique truth in the world, not as we may want to see it or hope to see it, but as it is.
在每个人生命的某一时刻，一个人必须深入地审视自己灵魂的镜子，并决定自己在这个世界上的独特真相，而不是我们可能想看到或希望看到的真相，而是真实的真相。
Most men, I am convinced, have an unmistakable feeling at the final moment of significant choice that they are making a free decision, that they can really decide which one of two or more roads to follow.
我相信，大多数男人在重大抉择的最后时刻都有一种明确无误的感觉，那就是他们在做一个自由的决定，他们真的可以在两条或两条以上的道路中选择一条。
I think the journey for a politician goes from wanting to please all the people all the time, to a political leader that realises in the end his responsibility is to decide. And when he decides, he divides.
我认为，一个政治家的旅程从想要一直取悦所有的人，到一个最终意识到他的责任是决定的政治领导人。当他决定的时候，他会分裂。
Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.
那些决定把休闲作为心智发展手段的人，那些喜欢好音乐、好书、好画、好剧本、好伙伴、好对话的人——他们是什么?他们是世界上最幸福的人。
There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.
有两种幸福的方式:我们必须要么减少我们的欲望，要么增加我们的手段——任何一种都可以——结果都是一样的，这是由每个人自己决定的，做那些碰巧更容易的事情。
In my early years, there were a number of experiences that made me decide I could not afford the luxury of just being an actress. There were a number of issues I wanted to address. And I wanted to use my career as a platform.
在我的早年，有很多经历使我决定我不能仅仅作为一个演员的奢侈。我有很多问题想要解决。我想把我的职业生涯作为一个平台。
Well I’ve just been thinking, and don’t you think it’s kind of, well, kind of vain, to decide we need to make little clones of ourselves when the worlds already pretty overpopulated. It’s just not practical and kind of greedy.
我一直在想，你不觉得这有点，嗯，有点徒劳，决定我们需要克隆我们自己，当世界已经相当人口过剩。只是不实用，有点贪心。
To know that once you decide to look at life outside of the narrow limits of just your world and start to understand that you can make a difference in very simple ways - in volunteering and all the way up to bigger world problems.
要知道，一旦你决定跳出你的世界的狭隘局限去看待生活，并开始明白你可以用非常简单的方式做出改变——志愿服务，以及解决更大的世界问题。
The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence.
决定我们命运的问题不是我们是否要向太空扩张。它是:我们是一个物种还是一百万?一百万个物种不会耗尽等待智能到来的生态位。
Everything starts with yourself, with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. I tell kids that it's a cruel world, and that the world will bend them either left or right, and it's up to them to decide which way to bend.
一切都从你自己开始，从你决定你的人生要做什么开始。我告诉孩子们，这是一个残酷的世界，这个世界会让他们向左或向右弯曲，这取决于他们决定向哪个方向弯曲。
People should decide 'are you willing to spend all this money to go to Mars?' I think the average person on the ground would never spend that amount of money - they have to spend it on something that makes sense and this is definitely saving our planet.
人们应该决定“你愿意花这么多钱去火星吗?”“我认为地球上的普通人永远不会花那么多钱——他们必须把钱花在有意义的事情上，这无疑是在拯救我们的地球。”
I have never been able to decide whether, in mountain exploration, it is the prospect of tackling an unsolved problem, or the performance of the task itself, or the retrospective enjoyment of successful effort, which affords the greatest amount of pleasure.
在山区探险中，我一直无法决定是解决一个尚未解决的问题的前景，还是任务本身的执行，还是对成功努力的回顾享受，才给我带来最大的乐趣。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
One of the main things I do is focus on ideas and what stories we decide to tell, but probably the biggest part of my job I'd say is working on the storyboards.
我做的主要事情之一就是专注于想法和我们决定讲的故事，但我想说的是，我工作中最重要的部分可能是编写故事板。
The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.
要想有所成就，第一步是决定你不会停留在原地。
I decide to turn to my old faithful solution to all that is wrong in life. Coffee.
我决定用我的老方法来解决生活中所有的问题。咖啡。
You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.
你不能选择你将如何死去。或者当。你只能决定如何生活。现在。
Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?
当医生们意见不一，像你我这样的诡辩家们产生怀疑时，谁来做决定呢?
Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.
类比确实不能决定什么，但它能让人感觉更自在。