It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.

  • -- Benjamin Franklin 本杰明富兰克林

压抑最初的欲望要比满足随后的欲望容易得多。

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What everybody misses here is that we are doing the same thing my father did. He licensed and litigated and protected his property, and we have to follow the same tradition, because the way the law reads, if you don't protect it, you lose it.

这里每个人都怀念的是,我们正在做着和我父亲一样的事情。他许可、诉讼和保护他的财产,我们必须遵循同样的传统,因为法律的解读是,如果你不保护它,你就会失去它。

I am a strong believer in the intertwined nature of the personal and the political; I think they move together.

我坚信个人和政治的本质是交织在一起的;我想他们会搬到一起。

No tricks, gimmicks, special pills, special potions, special equipment. All it takes is desire and will.

没有花招,小玩意,特殊药丸,特殊药剂,特殊设备。所需要的只是欲望和意志。

While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best.

当我享受我们温暖的月份时,冬天形成了我们的性格,展现了我们最好的一面。

It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.

请求原谅往往比请求允许更容易。

huge opportunity for someone to come in and make this easier.

这是一个巨大的机会,有人可以进来,让事情变得更容易。

We'll all be riding that streetcar of desire.

我们都将乘坐欲望的电车。

People don't like to follow pessimists.

人们不喜欢追随悲观主义者。