A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
摧毁
Destroy
Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
凡活着的，无论是人，是鹿，是松树，都比死了好。
As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.
一旦人们决定所有的手段都可以用来对抗邪恶，那么他们的善就和他们想要消灭的邪恶没有什么区别了。
If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.
如果人们破坏了人类创造的可替换的东西，他们被称为破坏者;如果他们破坏了上帝创造的不可替代的东西，他们就被称为开发者。
To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts.
写规则的诗破坏了无数美好的可能性，但同时也暗示了许多遥远的、完全出乎意料的想法。
Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it obstructed its fair, comfortable progress in the path of life.
然而，邪恶还在增加，就像船上的藤壶寄生虫一样，如果它不破坏结构，就会阻碍它在人生道路上公平、舒适地前进。
If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.
如果你要摧毁对人类不朽的信仰，不仅是爱，而且是世界上所有生命延续所依赖的每一种生命力，都会立刻枯竭。
I've done that kind of stuff in records, where you start going back and you want to just redo everything, destroy everything, because you think it all sucks and you can do it better.
我在唱片里做过类似的事情，当你开始往回看的时候，你想要重做所有的东西，毁掉所有的东西，因为你认为这一切都很糟糕，你可以做得更好。
Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.
烧毁你们的城市，离开我们的农场，你们的城市就会像魔法一样重新出现;但是摧毁我们的农场，全国每个城市的街道上都会长出草来。
Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.
大多数批判性的写作都是胡言乱语，而且有一半是不诚实的。无论如何，这是一条通往遗忘的捷径。用思想来思考破坏了用情感和感觉来思考的能力。
The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer.
信任的力量最难的地方在于它很难建立，也很容易被摧毁。建立信任的本质是强调你和客户之间的相似性。
Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.
塞尔维亚不想以和平的方式承认我们的国家，因此他们要摧毁我们。我们所有寻求和平解决办法的努力都是不可能的。为了拯救人民，北约不得不介入。
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
信念有创造的力量，也有毁灭的力量。人类有一种可怕的能力，可以从他们的生活中获取任何经验，并创造出一种意义，使他们丧失权力，或一种真正能拯救他们生命的意义。
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We destroy things with our curiosity. We shatter with our best intentions.
我们用好奇心破坏事物。我们用我们最好的意愿粉碎。
To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
毁灭总是任何创造的第一步。
In the end, our society will be defined not only by what we create, but by what we refuse to destroy.
最终，我们的社会将不仅由我们创造的东西来定义，而且由我们拒绝破坏的东西来定义。
We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.
我们不能破坏男女之间的不平等，除非我们破坏婚姻。
Rules and models destroy genius and art.
规则和模型摧毁天才和艺术。
I'm in no hurry to get anywhere. I don't have any plans. I don't have a map. If you did in this business, you'd destroy yourself.
我不急着去任何地方。我没有任何计划。我没有地图。如果你干这行，你会毁了自己的。