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If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

  • -- Ralph Waldo Emerson 拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生

如果一个男人能……做一个更好的捕鼠器，世界就会开辟一条通往自己家门口的路。

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Let's have the music that will open the door to millions of people... the kind of music that will not make people think only of the song or even of the singer... not music that is confined to the merely personal.

让我们的音乐为数百万人打开大门……这种音乐不会让人们只想到歌曲，甚至是歌手……而不是局限于个人的音乐。

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If a man write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

如果一个人写的书比他的邻居好，讲道比他的邻居讲的好，捕鼠器比他的邻居做的好，即使他把房子盖在树林里，世界也会为他开辟一条平坦的道路。

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I'd get to within a yard of that door you walk through and the thing would go mad. I used to carry an X-ray in my briefcase, to show them. But I had all the metal taken out.

我只要走到你穿过的那扇门的一码之内，那东西就会发疯。我过去常常在公文包里放一张x光片给他们看。但是我把所有的金属都取出来了。

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You know, at some point there has to be parity. There has to be parity between what is happening in the real world, and what is happening in the public sector world.

你知道，在某个点必须有奇偶校验。现实世界正在发生的事情，与公共部门正在发生的事情，必须是对等的。

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In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

在现代商业中，最可怕的不是骗子，而是不知道自己在做什么的诚实的人。

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What the world stigmatizes as romantic is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed.

被世人污蔑为浪漫主义的东西往往比人们通常认为的更接近事实。

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The early bird may catch the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

早起的鸟儿有虫吃，早起的老鼠有奶酪吃。

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I know God has bigger and better plans for me than I have for myself.

我知道神对我有比我对自己更大更好的计划。

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'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

宁可曾经爱过而失败，也不要从来未曾有过一次爱。

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Judge a man by the reputation of his enemies.

以貌取人。

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A shy cat makes a proud mouse.

猫一害羞，老鼠就变骄傲。

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