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Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.

  • -- Walter Savage Landor 兰德

人就像钉子一样，一旦失去了方向，开始弯曲，就失去了作用。

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Men are men before they are lawyers, or physicians, or merchants, or manufacturers; and if you make them capable and sensible men, they will make themselves capable and sensible lawyers or physicians.

在成为律师、医生、商人或制造商之前，人就是人;如果你让他们成为有能力、有见识的人，他们也会成为有能力、有见识的律师或医生。

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The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have.

细节和工艺水平是在最初的设计理念中体现出来的。所以当我开始画画的时候，我知道我想要什么样的细节。

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There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives.

曾经指甲是高科技的。曾经有一段时间，人们必须被告知如何使用电话。技术只是一种工具。人们使用工具来改善他们的生活。

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It is a remarkable honor to receive a Nobel Prize, because it not only recognizes discoveries, but also their usefulness to the advancement of fundamental science.

获得诺贝尔奖是一种非凡的荣誉，因为它不仅表彰发现，而且表彰它们对基础科学进步的贡献。

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The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses.

我注意到人类之间最大的不同不在于他们愿意犯错误，而在于他们愿意承认这些不可避免的错误。

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The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, and intellect and feeling are only important insofar as they contribute to that.

真正重要的是意志的方向和坚定性，而智力和情感的重要性只在于它们对意志的贡献。

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You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.

当你做小事情的时候，你必须考虑大事情，这样所有的小事情都会朝着正确的方向发展。

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Besides, my usefulness here is destroyed because all of my friends think me a man of unsound mind.

此外，我在这里的用处被毁了，因为我所有的朋友都认为我是一个精神不健全的人。

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It might hurt to lose people, But maybe they just weren't supposed to stay.

失去亲人也许是件痛苦的事，但也许他们不应该留下来。

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Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.

国家从哪里开始，个人自由就从哪里结束，反之亦然。

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I didn't want to lose my sense of myself in my profession.

我不想在我的职业中失去自我意识。

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