Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.

  • -- Scott Adams 史考特·亚当斯

自由意志是一种幻觉。人们总是选择感知到的最大快乐的道路。

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Modeling is basically 'Buy more stuff! Don't you want some more stuff? It will make you look ten years younger and men will like you!' If I'd wanted to be a salesperson, I would have got a job selling.

模特基本上就是“买更多的东西!”你不想要更多的东西吗?这会让你看起来年轻十岁,男人会喜欢你的!如果我想成为一名销售员,我就会找到一份销售的工作。

Implicit in true freedom of spirit lies a proud and virile will. Such glorious power of free will to choose, envisages beneficent social responsibility as manifest and welcome.

真正的精神自由中隐含着骄傲和刚强的意志。这种选择的自由意志的光辉力量,把慈善的社会责任看作是显而易见和受欢迎的。

Politics also means educating people. It's important to speak openly with our fellow Greeks, to tell them what our problems are and that we have to change something.

政治也意味着教育人民。与我们的希腊同胞开诚布公地交谈,告诉他们我们的问题所在,告诉他们我们必须做出改变,这很重要。

But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time.

但遗憾的是,在公共广播中存在的一个问题是,人们往往认为你一直都是真诚的。

Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

戒酒者:易受拒绝享乐诱惑的弱者。

Making up a whole story in  your head. Hoping one day it will happen.

在脑海中编造一个故事。希望有一天它会发生。

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

智慧人的目的,不是寻求快乐,乃是避免痛苦。

I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.

我更愿意选择保留哪些传统,放弃哪些。

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.

如果我们选择,我们可以生活在一个舒适的幻想世界。

There is no 'I.' That's an illusion we've got to get beyond.

没有“我”。我们必须摆脱这种错觉。

I didn't choose to be an actress.

我没有选择当演员。