A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
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The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.
房子必须让每个人都满意，而艺术作品则不然。这件作品是艺术家的私事。房子不是。
No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you've come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself.
无论你是谁，无论你做了什么，无论你来自哪里，你都可以改变，成为更好的自己。
You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within it, no matter how slight.
你被赋予生命;你有责任(也是你作为一个人的权利)去发现其中的美好，无论多么微不足道。
No matter what policy initiatives we take on, we are going to need a permanent repository for nuclear fuel based on the law and sound science.
无论我们采取何种政策举措，我们都需要一个基于法律和健全科学的核燃料永久储存库。
Sometimes, you have to try not to care, no matter how much you do. Because, sometimes, you mean nothing to someone who means everything to you.
有时候，你不得不试着不去在乎，不管你做了多少。因为，有时候，你对一个对你来说很重要的人来说什么都不是。
Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.
欧洲传统中的大多数绘画都是画面具。现代艺术拒绝了这一切。我们的主题是面具背后的人。
Everything that is necessary is also easy. You just have to accept it. And the most necessary, the most natural matter on this planet is death.
所有必要的事情都很容易。你必须接受它。这个星球上最必要、最自然的物质就是死亡。
Anthropology never has had a distinct subject matter, and because it doesn't have a real method, there's a great deal of anxiety over what it is.
人类学从来没有一个明确的主题，因为它没有一个真正的方法，所以人们对它到底是什么有很大的焦虑。
As long as you smile, have sparkly eyes and stick your shoulders back, nobody's going to notice your bum or your waist or your feet, for that matter.
只要你面带微笑，眼睛炯炯有神，肩膀挺直，就没有人会注意到你的屁股、腰和脚。
Obviously, the most memorable has a lot to do with the time spent on the matter, and the Westerfield and Peterson cases are up at the top of the list.
显然，最令人难忘的是花在这件事上的时间，韦斯特菲尔德案和彼得森案名列榜首。
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
快乐，似乎，是一个完全取决于内部事物的状态，以及外部和周围事物的状态的问题。
Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.
在每一项任务上都要做到最好，不管它在当时看起来多么不重要。对于一个问题，没有人比底层的人了解得更多。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.
凡事必有开端，惟有忍耐到底，直到事情成就，才有真荣耀。
We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
我们不能设想物质是无中生有的，因为事物需要一粒种子从……因此，没有什么东西会归于虚无，而是所有的东西都回归到它们的元素中去了。
No matter how devastating our struggles, disappointments, and troubles are, they are only temporary.
无论我们的挣扎、失望和烦恼有多么具有毁灭性，它们都只是暂时的。
All money is a matter of belief.
所有的钱都是信仰的问题。
No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.
不管你认为自己有多忙，你都必须找时间读书，否则你就会陷入自己选择的无知之中。
Our God is not made of stone. His heart is the most sensitive and tender of all. No act goes unnoticed, no matter how insignificant or small. A cup of cold water is enough to put tears in the eyes of God. God celebrates our feeble expressions of gratitude.
我们的神不是石头做的。他的心是最敏感和最温柔的。任何行为都不会被忽视，无论多么微不足道或微不足道。一杯凉水就足以让上帝热泪盈眶。上帝赞美我们无力的感激之情。