Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

  • -- Ernest Dimnet 欧内斯特·蒂姆尼特

生活是一连串的教训,通过立即的奖赏而强化,或者更经常的是通过立即的惩罚而强化。

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If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember also that you are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.

如果你成功了,那是因为在某个地方,某个时候,有人给了你一个生命或一个想法,让你朝着正确的方向前进。也要记住,如果你没有像别人帮助你一样帮助那些不幸的人,你是欠生活的。

Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.

教育可以抵消做错事的自然倾向,但世代相传的必然要求不断更新这种知识的基础。

Giant group events are distorting organisms: You can like and hate them in rapid succession.

大型团体活动是扭曲的有机体:你可以在短时间内喜欢它们,也可以讨厌它们。

The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.

坚持不懈的意志往往是成功与失败的区别。