We are often too late with our brilliance. We are on time delay. The only instant gratification comes in the form of potato chips. The rest will find us by surprise somewhere down the road maybe as we sleep and dream of other things.

  • -- Richard Schiff 理查德·希夫

我们的聪明才智往往来得太晚。我们准时到达。唯一的即时满足感来自于薯片。其余的人会在我们睡觉和做其他梦的时候,在路上某个地方意外地发现我们。

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If a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, - it would be destitute of exchangeable value, however scarce it might be, or whatever quantity of labour might be necessary to procure it.

如果一种商品毫无用处,换句话说,如果它对我们的满足感毫无帮助,那么它就没有可交换的价值,无论它有多么稀缺,也无论购买它需要多少劳动力。

Facing my own death brought an instant sense of clarity and purpose.

面对自己的死亡,我立刻有了清醒和目标感。

The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.

满足感来自于行动,而不是结果。

Each instant of life is a step toward death.

生命的每一瞬间都是走向死亡的一步。

Tough times don't last but tough people do.

艰难的岁月不会长久,但坚强的人会一直坚强。

You may delay, but time will not.

你可以拖延,但时间不会。