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决定
Decisions
All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.
在我的一生中，每当需要做决定的时候，我都会做，然后忘记它。
Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
花时间仔细考虑;但当行动的时刻到来时，停止思考，行动起来。
I just was not going to subject my record to the bleak prospects of a primary election.
我只是不想让我的记录受制于初选的惨淡前景。
People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same.
人们希望改变一切，同时又希望一切保持不变。
At one point in your life, you'll have the thing you want or the reasons why you don't.
在你生命的某一时刻，你会得到你想要的东西或你不想要的理由。
Choices, options, decisions abound. Choose right, take the best option and decide well.
选择，选择，决定比比皆是。选择正确，做出最好的选择，做出正确的决定。
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
进步的艺术是在变革中保持秩序，在秩序中保持变革。
I don't consult polls to tell me what my principles are or what our policies should be.
我不会参考民意调查来告诉我我的原则是什么或者我们的政策应该是什么。
Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination.
永远不要忘记，解决问题的关键在于决心，而不是想象。
Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.
人们试图按照自己的意愿来管理生活;生活是根据需要而运行的。
A quota is always something artificial that can only last for a certain period of time.
配额总是人为的，只能持续一段时间。
It's a pretty intuitive process, picking the projects that I want to get involved with.
这是一个非常直观的过程，选择我想参与的项目。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.
承担生活责任的关键是接受这样一个事实:无论你如何定义这些术语，你的每一个选择都在无情地引导你走向成功或失败。
You have to really think about things before you do them.
在做事情之前，你必须认真考虑。
Take responsibility for your own happiness, do not expect people or things to bring you happiness, or you could be disappointed.
对自己的幸福负责，不要期望别人或事情给你带来幸福，否则你可能会失望。
Let us agree here today to adopt among ourselves a simple and unwritten rule. We will not rise to criticize someone else's idea unless we are prepared to offer an alternative idea of our own.
让我们今天在这里达成协议，在我们中间采纳一项简单而不成文的规则。除非我们准备好提出自己的另一种观点，否则我们不会站出来批评别人的观点。
We cannot put off the difficult decisions for another day, another generation.
我们不能把艰难的决定推迟到另一天，另一代人。
If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
如果你不喜欢某样东西，改变它;如果你不能改变它，那就改变你思考它的方式。