A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
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Aim
Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
许多人说炼金术是用来制造金银的。对我来说,这并不是我的目的,而仅仅是考虑药物可能具有的美德和力量。
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
因此,我的目的是鞭笞造反者,使他们的骄傲变得谦卑,跟随他们到最深处,使他们惧怕我们。恐惧是智慧的开端。
My aim is to make you look the best I come from very humble origins, so the last thing I would ever do is to look down my nose at people who can't afford to come here to my shop.
这个人说:“我出身很寒微,所以我决不会瞧不起那些没有钱来我店里买东西的人。
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
每一个艺术家的目标都是通过人为的手段来捕捉运动,也就是生命,并把它固定住,这样一百年后,当一个陌生人看到它时,它又动了起来,因为这就是生命。
When people walk away from you, let them go your destiny is never tied to anyone who leaves you, and it doesn't mean they are bad people. It just means that their part in your story is over.
当人们离开你的时候,让他们离开你。你的命运永远不会和离开你的人联系在一起,这并不意味着他们是坏人。这只是意味着他们在你故事中的角色结束了。
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As a musician usually music is your way out.
作为一个音乐家,音乐通常是你的出路。
Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia.
我们政治行动主义的目标不是,也不应该是,创造一个完美的乌托邦。
The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.
人生的目的是欣赏;不欣赏是没有意义的;如果你对他们缺乏欣赏,那么拥有更多的他们就没有意义了。
Money is a strange business. People who haven't got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.
钱是一种奇怪的东西。没有得到它的人会强烈地瞄准它。有困难的人总是充满困难。
The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.
教育的目的不是知识的事实,而是价值。
My aim in homeschooling is to give my children the ability to be an adult learner, a skill set that will last the rest of their lives.
我在家上学的目的是让我的孩子们有能力成为一名成年学习者,这一技能将持续他们的余生。