I went with agnosticism for a long, long time because I just hated to say I was an atheist - being an atheist seemed so rigid. But the more I became comfortable with the word, and the more I read, it started to stick.

  • -- Julia Sweeney 朱莉娅·斯威尼

在很长一段时间里,我一直信奉不可知论,因为我只是不愿意说我是一个无神论者——作为一个无神论者似乎太死板了。但我对这个词越熟悉,读得越多,它就越能让我接受。

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Sometimes it is better to begin the journey, to get under way, then it is to sit back and wait until such time that you're convinced that all conditions are perfect and that there'll be no surprises along the route.

有时候,开始一段旅程,开始一段旅程,然后坐下来等待,直到你确信所有的条件都是完美的,一路上不会有任何意外发生。

For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.

有一段时间,我成了一个无神论者;不过,现在我长大了,还没有硬到成为无神论者的地步。虽然我和一个狂热的无神论者住在一起,但我喜欢去寺庙。我喜欢所有的仪式。

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

成为无神论者需要无限的信心,而不是接受无神论所否认的所有伟大真理。

Stick to the basics, hold on to your family and friends - they will never go out of fashion.

坚持基本原则,抓住你的家人和朋友——他们永远不会过时。

I stick my neck out for nobody. I'm the only cause I'm interested in.

我不为任何人冒险。我是我唯一感兴趣的事业。

But meanwhile time flies; it flies never to be regained.

但与此同时,时间飞逝;它再也飞不回来了。