One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. The bamboozle has captured us. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.
历史上最惨痛的教训之一是:如果我们被愚弄的时间足够长，我们往往会拒绝任何有关这种欺骗的证据。竹竿把我们捉住了。一旦你让一个骗子控制了你，你几乎永远不会再得到它。
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
我们中很少有人能实现自己真正想要的，原因之一就是我们从来没有把注意力集中在自己身上;我们从不集中精力。大多数人都是涉猎人生，从来没有决定要掌握什么特别的东西。
One's environment is stronger than will.
一个人的环境比意志更强大。
Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.
只有一个知道被打败是什么滋味的人，才能够深入到灵魂的深处，拿出赢得比赛所需要的额外力量。
Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
只有每天都为自己辩护的人才配得上权力。
Only now did I recognize the reciprocal relationship which exits between manufacturing power and the national system of transportation, and that the one can never develop to its fullest without the other.
直到现在，我才认识到制造业力量和国家运输系统之间存在着一种相互的关系，没有它们，国家运输系统就不可能得到充分的发展。
Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.
只有通过自我毁灭，我才能发现我精神的更大力量。
Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter the nature of his world.
只有在以本世纪为代表的那个时代，一个物种——人类——才获得了改变其世界本质的巨大力量。
Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
我们的国家现在走的道路是如此稳定，以致于表明它将走哪条路走向毁灭，也就是说:首先通过巩固权力，然后是腐败，来显示其必然的后果。
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
我们最深的恐惧不是我们不够。我们最深的恐惧是我们的力量无法估量。
Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.
当我们击溃一个人的灵魂时，我们的力量感比我们赢得他的心时更强烈。
Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
我们的技术力量在增强，但副作用和潜在危险也在升级。
Our words are so powerful. They can bless or curse someone. Bless someone today with your words.
我们的话语是如此有力。他们可以祝福或诅咒某人。用你的语言祝福某人。
Pain lost its power when other things became more important.
当其他事情变得更重要时，痛苦就失去了力量。
Part of the reason [motherly advice] bugs us as daughters is because our mothers are so powerful in our lives. They loom like giants. The reason mothers keep at it is because they're so powerless. They cannot get you to do what is so obvious to them you should do.
作为女儿，(母亲的建议)让我们烦恼的部分原因是，我们的母亲在我们的生活中是如此强大。他们像巨人一样隐现。母亲们坚持这样做的原因是因为她们无能为力。他们无法让你去做你应该做的事情。