To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell.

  • -- Thomas Merton 托马斯·默顿

只根据对自己的影响来考虑人、事件和情况,无异于生活在地狱的门口。

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I played with the same band for years and years and there's a beauty to having one solid core that you keep exploring. On the other hand, it's nice to throw yourself in different situations where you find out things about your own resources.

我在同一个乐队演奏了很多年,拥有一个你一直在探索的坚实的核心是一种美丽。另一方面,把自己置身于不同的环境中,了解自己的资源是件好事。

It is important to consider whether the sample size selected by the Environmental Genome Project will provide sufficient power to discover most alleles relevant to gene-environment interactions.

重要的是要考虑环境基因组计划选择的样本量是否将提供足够的力量来发现大多数与基因-环境相互作用相关的等位基因。

From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason, necessarily infer the existence of a God, and of all created things in the mind of God.

从我自己的存在,从我自己和我的思想中所找到的依赖,我通过理性的行动,必然推断出上帝的存在,以及上帝头脑中所创造的一切事物的存在。

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

与其赢得一千场战斗,不如征服自己。那么胜利就是你的了。无论是天使、是鬼魔、是天堂、是地狱、都不能夺去你的灵魂。

Our holiness is an effect, not a cause; so long as our eyes are on our own personal whiteness as an end in itself, the thing breaks down.

我们的圣洁是结果,不是原因;只要我们把自己的眼睛盯着自己的白色作为目标,事情就会崩溃。

Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't.

谁是最合适的人选?我们都创造了对方无法承受的局面,然后又因为对方无法承受而心碎。

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

我不擅长在灾难和暴行之间建立因果关系。

When a man comes to me and tries to convince me that he is not a thief, then I take care of my coppers.

当一个人来找我,试图让我相信他不是小偷时,我就会管好我的铜板。

Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health.

对身体不好的人的任性应该给予很大的体谅。

Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.

任何认为礼节不重要的人都从未和猫打过交道。

I know, but I had a better year than Hoover.

我知道,但我今年过得比胡佛好。

Maybe this world is another planet's hell.

也许这个世界是另一个星球的地狱。