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The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

  • -- Arthur C. Clarke 亚瑟·C·克拉克

衡量一个人是否诚实的最好标准不是他的所得税申报表。这是他浴室磅秤上的零点调整。

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The best way to conduct research on a larger scale is to make sure everyone knows what everyone else is doing... The sooner the better - start talking to other people about what you're doing. Because that's what will stimulate things the fastest.

进行大规模研究的最好方法是确保每个人都知道其他人在做什么……越快越好——开始和别人谈论你正在做的事情。因为这是最快的刺激。

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The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.

我们所能做的最好的事情就是对我们的朋友和同行的乘客友好和帮助，当我们肩并肩漂流向我们共同的命运时，他们紧紧抓住同一粒尘埃。

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In some ways, I lament the introduction of civilisation on such a huge scale, because it has given us a lot of room to abuse each other, which we continue to do.

在某种程度上，我对如此大规模地引入文明感到遗憾，因为它给了我们很大的空间来互相辱骂，而我们现在仍在这样做。

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Learn to adjust yourself to the conditions you have to endure, but make a point of trying to alter or correct conditions so that they are most favorable to you.

学会让自己适应你必须忍受的环境，但要注意改变或纠正环境，使它们对你最有利。

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Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.

欲望是创造，是这个过程中不可思议的元素。如果有一种衡量欲望的工具，人们就能预知成就。

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Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.

对有组织的群众的抵抗，只能由个人和群众一样有组织的人来进行。

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So I do have to work, you know, and I find as many movies and TV shows that I can, because otherwise I wouldn't have an income.

所以我必须工作，你知道，我尽可能多地找到电影和电视节目，否则我就没有收入了。

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I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax.

我想说，我比戈德华特更保守。他只是想回到没有所得税的年代。

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In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop.

在一所有小孩子的房子里，浴室很快就呈现出老古玩店的样子。

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No one measures a life in weeks and days. You measure life in years and by the things that happen to you.

没有人用几周或几天来衡量一个人的一生。你用岁月和发生在你身上的事情来衡量生命。

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To me, baseball has always been a reflection of life. Like life, it adjusts. It survives everything.

对我来说，棒球一直是生活的反映。就像生活一样，它也会做出调整。它生存的一切。

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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

没有价值观的教育虽然有用，但似乎反而会使人成为更聪明的魔鬼。

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I have been enjoying my return to modeling. That's where my career started many years ago.

我很享受回归模特的生活。那是我多年前开始职业生涯的地方。

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I have a zero tolerance for sanctimonious morons who try to scare people.

我对那些企图吓唬人的假正经的低能儿绝不容忍。

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The public gets not one penny from them in return for those airwaves.

公众从这些广播中得不到一分钱的回报。

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The best way to avoid danger is to meet it plump.

避免危险的最好办法是勇敢地面对危险。

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My name has zero value.

我的名字没有值。

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