There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.

  • -- Walt Whitman 沃尔特惠特曼

没有什么东西比它更柔软的了,它是轮式宇宙的中心。

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The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.

我们所有人都面临的问题是,我们将在什么样的文化中度过余生,然后将其传承给下一代——是接受这些最基本的价值观,还是因为没有这些价值观而崩溃。

Why can't women get along? Because we're afraid. We're afraid to be vulnerable. We're afraid to be soft. We're afraid to be hurt. But most of all, we're afraid of our power. So we become controlling and aggressive and vicious.

为什么女人不能和睦相处?因为我们害怕。我们害怕脆弱。我们害怕软弱。我们害怕受伤。但最重要的是,我们害怕自己的力量。所以我们变得控制欲强,好斗,恶毒。

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

人生的成功建立在对小事的关注上,而不是对大事的关注上;而不是那些遥远而不寻常的东西。

And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.

有那么一瞬间,她直直地盯着那双柔和的蓝眼睛,带着一种哺乳动物本能的肯定,她知道那些极其富有的人已经不再是人类了。

Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.

无生命物体可以科学地分为三类;那些不工作的,那些崩溃的,那些迷路的。

No storyteller has ever been able to dream up anything as fantastically unlikely as what really does happen in this mad Universe.

从来没有一个讲故事的人能想象出在这个疯狂的宇宙中发生的如此不可思议的事情。

No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.

与作家有密切关系的人,除了认为他做得太过火之外,谁也不欣赏他的气质。

Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.

教育止于学校,而教育止于生命。孩子是上天赐予的接受教育的对象。

In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.

在艺术中,人表现的是他自己,而不是他的对象。