It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

  • -- Elizabeth Bowen 伊丽莎白·鲍恩

当一个朋友的口袋上有洞的时候,把硬币放在他的口袋里是没有帮助的。

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I want to be able to say what's on my mind and in my heart and what I think is helpful and useful without somebody getting angry, some special interest group deciding this is the time to silence a voice of dissent and attack affiliates, attack sponsors. I'm sort of done with that.

我希望能够说出我的想法,我的内心,我认为什么是有用的,什么是有用的,而不会有人感到愤怒,一些特殊利益集团决定现在是时候压制异议的声音,攻击附属机构,攻击赞助商。我受够了。

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

我们可以为几亩地,或一点钱感谢朋友;然而,为了整个地球的自由和秩序,为了我们的存在、我们的生命、健康和理性的巨大利益,我们认为自己没有义务。

I think to say that meditation is helpful to artists is true and it's great, but it's also essentially helpful to any kind of process of, just, life.

我想说冥想对艺术家是有帮助的,这是真的,很好,但它本质上对任何一种生活过程都是有帮助的。

Chocolate friends may not last any longer than fake ones, but they sure as hell taste better.

巧克力朋友可能不会比假朋友持续更久,但他们确实尝起来更好吃。