Any ordeal that you can survive as a human being is an improvement in your character, and usually an improvement in your life.

  • -- Viggo Mortensen 维戈·莫特森

作为一个人,你能生存下来的任何磨难都是你性格上的进步,通常也是生活上的进步。

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Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it, piece by piece -- by thought, choice, courage, and determination.

良好的品格比杰出的才能更值得称赞。在某种程度上,大多数才能都是一种天赋。相反,良好的品格不是赋予我们的。我们必须一步一步地建设它——通过思考、选择、勇气和决心。

Through art and science in their broadest senses it is possible to make a permanent contribution towards the improvement and enrichment of human life and it is these pursuits that we students are engaged in.

通过最广泛意义上的艺术和科学,有可能为改善和丰富人类生活作出永久的贡献,而我们学生从事的正是这些追求。

It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on.

也有人说我时常自相矛盾。是的,随着时间的推移,我进步得很快。

I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.

我认为,我们应该体面地死去,这样至少体面才能生存。

We agree that man was not created to survive in space.

我们同意人不是为在太空中生存而生的。

My character is not flawless.

我的性格并不完美。