A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
人民
People
People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
人们通常更相信自己发现的原因，而不是别人发现的原因。
Consequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other people's formulations of what's important.
因此，我们中的大多数人实际上是在别人对什么是重要的公式的支配下生存的。
Sometimes it's not that two people aren't right for eachother. It's more like the timing wasn't right.
有时候并不是两个人不适合彼此。更像是时机不对。
People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.
人们有时会说成为爵士乐迷需要很长时间，但对我来说，这只需要五秒钟。
When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
当人们听到好的音乐，它使他们想家的东西，他们从来没有，永远不会有。
If you ask people what they've always wanted to do, most people haven't done it. That breaks my heart.
如果你问人们他们一直想做什么，大多数人都没有做过。我的心都碎了。
At one time, I was persuaded to want to make music, and people answered me that that was not possible.
有一次，我被说服想做音乐，人们回答我说那是不可能的。
I believe that you should put the right people around you, people that will not let anything go wrong.
我相信你应该把正确的人放在你身边，那些不会让任何事情出错的人。
I keep on working when other people are out having fun. But I love what I do and find it hard to stop.
当别人出去玩的时候，我继续工作。但我热爱我所做的，并且发现很难停下来。
Language expresses people's thinking and it was by a Word that God created the world and preserves it.
语言表达了人们的思想，上帝创造了世界并保存了它。
The usual cause of evil in the world is that at any given time half the people in the world are awake.
世界上邪恶的通常原因是，在任何时候，世界上有一半的人是醒着的。
It's cool to be in the paper every once in awhile and people read about you and they know who you are.
偶尔出现在报纸上很酷，人们读到关于你的报道，知道你是谁。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
If you can do what you do best and be happy, you're further along in life than most people.
如果你能做自己最擅长的事，并且快乐，你就比大多数人在生活中走得更远。
Death used to announce itself in the thick of life but now people drag on so long it sometimes seems that we are reaching the stage when we may have to announce ourselves to death. It is as though one needs a special strength to die, and not a final weakness.
死亡过去常常在生命的壮年宣布它自己，但现在人们拖得太久了，有时我们似乎到了不得不宣布死亡的时候。就好像一个人死的时候需要一种特殊的力量，而不是最终的弱点。
To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.
说任何一个人都不适合自由，就是让贫困成为他们的选择，说他们宁愿背负重税也不愿不负担。
It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass.
当我发现故事书是由人写的，书并不是自然奇观，而是像草一样自己生长出来的时候，我感到既震惊又失望。
The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.
历史的概念本身就意味着学者和读者。如果没有一代文明人来研究历史，保存历史记录，吸取历史教训，并把它们与自身的问题联系起来，历史也将失去其意义。
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
有些人永远学不到任何东西，因为他们理解一切太快。