A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
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I'd rather be physically hurt than emotionally. Because you can put a band-aid onyour finger, but you can't put one on your heart.
我宁愿身体上受伤害，也不愿感情上受伤害。因为你可以把创可贴贴在手指上，但不能贴在心脏上。
For too long people have backed companies on hope value rather than solid products coming out. Now we are coming out the other side.
长期以来，人们都是根据希望价值而非可靠产品来支持企业的。现在我们从另一边出来。
What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.
破碎的就是破碎的——我宁愿记住它最好的样子，也不愿把它修补好，然后一辈子看着那些破碎的地方。
All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience.
所有神话都不仅仅是幻想，而是随着时间的推移，由于人类经验的积累而获得而不是失去价值。
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。
But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.
但是，由于许多人努力获取知识而不是生活得很好，他们经常受到欺骗，从他们的劳动中收获很少或没有好处。
In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don't know what we're seeing, we overreact.
在艺术中，丑闻是一种虚假的叙述，是一种伪装而非揭露的烟幕。当我们不知道自己在看什么时，我们会反应过度。
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
友谊是多余的，像哲学，像艺术……它没有生存价值;相反，它是那些赋予生存价值的东西之一。
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
艺术的本质功能是道德。而是一种热情，含蓄的道德，而不是说教。一种改变血液而不是思想的道德。
I have always tried to live by the philosophy that when there is a big problem that needs fixing, you should run towards it, rather than away from it.
我一直试图按照这样的理念生活:当有一个大问题需要解决时，你应该朝它奔去，而不是逃避它。
A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.
一幅画必须具有产生光的真正力量，很长一段时间以来，我一直有意识地通过光，或者说在光中表达自己。
Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.
正确的纪律不在于外在的强迫，而在于能自发地导致可取而非不可取的行为的心理习惯。
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
I have always been adventurous and rather daring.
我一向喜欢冒险，而且相当大胆。
It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren't doing.
除非你在做某件事，而有些人却宁愿你不去做，否则这件事就不值得你去做。
If it took multiple debt ceiling hikes, I'd rather achieve the savings.
如果需要多次提高债务上限，我宁愿实现储蓄。
It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.
时间是一条河，这只是表面现象。这是一幅广阔的风景，是观者的眼睛在移动。
I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.
我宁愿尝试做一些伟大而失败的事情，也不愿尝试什么都不做而成功。
I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
我宁愿大错特错，也不愿勉强正确。