A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
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Purpose
One needs something to believe in, something for which one can have whole-hearted enthusiasm. One needs to feel that one's life has meaning, that one is needed in this world.
一个人需要一些信仰，一些可以让他全身心投入的东西。一个人需要感觉到自己的生命有意义，这个世界需要他。
The developing science departs at the same time more and more from its original scope and purpose and threatens to sacrifice its earlier unity and split into diverse branches.
科学的发展同时也越来越偏离其原来的范围和目的，有可能牺牲其早期的统一性，分裂成不同的分支。
When I talk of the purpose of life, I am thinking not only of human life, but of all life on Earth and of the life which must exist upon other planets throughout the universe.
当我谈到生命的目的时，我不仅想到了人类的生命，而且想到了地球上所有的生命以及宇宙中其他行星上必须存在的生命。
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
我们所观察的宇宙，如果其本质上没有设计、没有目的、没有恶、没有善，只有盲目、无情的冷漠，那么它就具有我们所期望的特性。
While goals are chosen, a purpose is discovered. Our purpose is something we have been doing all along, and will continue to do, regardless of circumstances, until the day we die.
当目标被选择时，目标就被发现了。我们的目标是我们一直在做的事情，并且会继续做下去，不管环境如何，直到我们死去的那一天。
There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.
在实际政治的海洋中，没有比这更危险的海洋了。在这海洋中，最需要好的引航员，在海浪高涨时，需要有一个坚定不变的目标。
It is not "history" which uses men as a means of achieving -- as if it were an individual person -- its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
不是“历史”把人当作达到自己目的的手段——就像把人当作一个独立的人一样。历史不过是人们追求目标的活动。
There are many alternatives to embryonic stem cell research, alternatives with great potential. We need to support these and oppose creating life for the sole purpose of destroying it.
胚胎干细胞研究的替代品有很多，而且潜力巨大。我们需要支持这些，反对为了毁灭生命而创造生命。
I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
我明白了，如果一个人自信地朝着自己的梦想前进，努力过自己想象中的生活，他就会在平凡的时间里获得意想不到的成功。
I was involved in the robbery for a pur pose, and that was because I knew somebody who could drive a diesel train. I was responsible to take along this old guy who could drive the train.
我参与抢劫只是为了装模作样，那是因为我认识一个会开柴油火车的人。我有责任带上这个会开火车的老人。
I think we're much smarter than we were. Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there's another purpose to it.
我觉得我们比以前聪明多了。每个人都知道抽象艺术可以是艺术，大多数人知道他们可能不喜欢它，即使他们知道它还有另一个目的。
We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
在试图思考我们如何才能做出巨大的改变时，我们决不能忽视我们每天可以做出的微小改变。随着时间的推移，这些微小的改变累积成我们常常无法预见的巨大变化。
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The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
教育的全部目的是把镜子变成窗户。
Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.
做一盏灯，或一艘救生艇，或一架梯子。帮助别人的灵魂痊愈。像个牧羊人一样走出家门。
More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.
没有目标的人比没有才能的人更容易失败。
Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.
伟大的人物有目标;其他人的愿望。
If we have our own ‘why’ of life, we can bear almost any `how'.
如果我们有自己的“为什么”生活，我们几乎可以忍受任何“如何”。
Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.
不要把生命浪费在怀疑和恐惧中;把你自己花在你面前的工作上，充分肯定正确地履行这一小时的职责将是为随后的几个小时和几岁做好的最好准备。