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Perseverance, n. A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

  • -- Ambrose Bierce 比尔斯

毅力:一种卑贱的美德，平庸之辈靠它获得不光彩的成功。

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It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge; and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world.

诚然，贵族们似乎滥用了他们对法律知识的垄断;无论如何，他们对法律的独占是那些开始在西方世界普遍存在的人民运动取得成功的巨大障碍。

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What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.

人真正需要的不是一种没有紧张的状态，而是为一个值得自己去追求的目标而奋斗。他所需要的不是不惜任何代价释放紧张，而是一种潜在意义的召唤，等待着他去实现。

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Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity.

竞争总是一件好事。它迫使我们做到最好。垄断使人们自满，满足于平庸。

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Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

即使是最小的事情，也要用心、思想、智力和灵魂去做。这就是成功的秘诀。

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Mediocrity inspires neither great love nor hate.

平庸不能激发伟大的爱，也不能激发伟大的恨。

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